Hello
So it's been a long while but i have another concern about the engine i was describing in this post:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/engi...ia-224076.html
I continued the cam break-in, then drove the car for a few month, a little at a time, approximately 50 miles. I decided to change the oil and filter. The oil coming out was a little dirty, but nothing alarming. Then unfortunately my career took me away from home for a while, but I'm back home now and wanted to drive my car again. I put fresh gas in it and pulled the distributor because I wanted to make sure the oil pump was still primed. The distributor gear seems to have an awful lot of wear given the short time the engine has run.
I have attached some pics. What do yall think? One pic is a little fuzzy but I tried to circle in red something very concerning to me which is a shard of metal coming off one of the gears. This cam isn't anything fancy and shouldn't have required a special gear, but I'm thinking I don't want to put this back in the engine and i'm considering pulling the engine back out to check on the crank and bearings. From what I can see, the cam gear does not show this amount of wear.
Also these pics are pretty high res so you could download and zoom in to see more clearly, assuming this site doesn't process them on upload.
So it's been a long while but i have another concern about the engine i was describing in this post:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/engi...ia-224076.html
I continued the cam break-in, then drove the car for a few month, a little at a time, approximately 50 miles. I decided to change the oil and filter. The oil coming out was a little dirty, but nothing alarming. Then unfortunately my career took me away from home for a while, but I'm back home now and wanted to drive my car again. I put fresh gas in it and pulled the distributor because I wanted to make sure the oil pump was still primed. The distributor gear seems to have an awful lot of wear given the short time the engine has run.
I have attached some pics. What do yall think? One pic is a little fuzzy but I tried to circle in red something very concerning to me which is a shard of metal coming off one of the gears. This cam isn't anything fancy and shouldn't have required a special gear, but I'm thinking I don't want to put this back in the engine and i'm considering pulling the engine back out to check on the crank and bearings. From what I can see, the cam gear does not show this amount of wear.
Also these pics are pretty high res so you could download and zoom in to see more clearly, assuming this site doesn't process them on upload.