Cam chewed up, whats the cause
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Originally Posted by MS3Z
I pulled my MS3 cam out and 3 lobes that make contact with the lifters were chewed up. This cam only has 9k miles on it. The lifters for those lobes were not chewed up but had some discoloration. The chewed up sections were only about a 1/4" long and they weren't very wide. They were torward the edge of the lobe.
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Originally Posted by mushroom281
hey harrold how can we tell if it is an 06 cam
You will also see the lobe numbers and the lsa numbers. If you can take a picture of the back of the cam and e-mail it to me.
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all I have read is about cam hardening/spring pressure. what about the lifter? if the bearings froze or something it could have prevented the roller from lifter to rotate and therefore gouge the cam. yes spring presure can cause lifter to go bad, just make sure lifter bearings didn't cause this. now what if bearing from roller lifter went bad it could cause gouging on cam and it would probably start to rotate the roller and gouge cam/roller as it's rotating too. so now it seems that the cam was at fault, so take a look at the lifter too!!! just throwing in something here that as not been mentioned yet. .02