Worst cam wear I have ever seen!

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Taouxis
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Worst cam wear I have ever seen!

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Just for viewing pleasure I'm posting this. Found in a spare head I bought

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1 valve had 0mm lift and 2 others about 3/4mm
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Re: Worst cam wear I have ever seen!

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mmmm...!

nice!


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And a nice new bacon slicer to go with it.................
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Re: Worst cam wear I have ever seen!

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Think I can beat that one. But it still had lift although it made one loud noise!
This came out of my Alfa boxer!

As you can imagine just a slight rebuild was necessary!
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Re: Worst cam wear I have ever seen!

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That is pretty bad too :)
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