Camshaft and followers
Al
streichea001 at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Mar 12 22:35:06 PDT 2012
Well I have finished sealing the oil leaks on my ‘90 80 non-Q. New gaskets help. Now I ‘m looking at replacing the cam followers and maybe the cam. I will also replace the cam seal.
My question is about the cam. The engine has roughly 235K on it. The cam shows some dark patches on the lobes, but I don’t have any problem with rough idle and the engine goes to 5500 rpm with no strain. Just the cam followers clicking a little heaver than I have noticed. Are cams available, at a reasonable price?
I have found cam followers to be pretty cheap, pack of 8 $60, and the seals are about $4. I haven’t seen any cams for the engine 3A,
P/N 026 109 101 G. The car is just a low mileage around town car so no hot cams, darn.
I have seen Huw’s web site and he has a very good article for replacing the followers, but I want to pull the cam to replace the seal.
Regards,
Al
Honolulu
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