Originally Posted by It's Czech Mate
15 years on the same cam in a cvh
no doubt it does run if you say so, but it will be scrap and won't have the same profile it went in with
really pleased you spent your entire youth working on them, it doesn't mean nobody else did.
I took your post giving contact details for a breakers as condoning fitting a used cam? I'm sure that's what you meant? Apologies if not
There's an old boy who used to live down the road from me until I moved house, still see him every now and again and he's had a series 2 rst since it was brand new. Also his friend who is an ex ford mechanic at the other end of his road has had a saph Cossie since new and has always worked on this escort for his mate. Had many many conversations over the years about the cars. I thought sod it I'll give him a ring this evening and just had a good chat with him, his mates escort rst is used every single day unless the owner takes his van for the dj work he does now he's retired and has never ever had the cam even removed from the car and the ex ford mechanic has
Worked on it since new and always serviced it
For him. He did tell me that they do suffer from cam and tappet wear due to owners not changing the oil at the required intervals and not using the correct grade. The only other thing that used to cause accelerated wear was the old mechanical fuel pumps that used
To run off the cam and cars sat being unused for long periods of time.
Anyway just thought I'd share the conversation.
Incidentally I wasnt suggesting I was the only one who worked with cvhs when I was younger nor am I nieve to even think such a thing