siscossie

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Went for a drive in the 3dr today pulled up at a mates to find a pool of oil under the car, got it home and at a first glance looked like the cam cover gasket. But after removing this saw it was the cam seal, looks like it had been chewed up


After i removed the seal the bearings for the cam where also chewed up



Looks like the metal ring out of the cam seal has come out and chewed up the bearings, never seen that before
Just wondered if anyone else has or what caused it?

Rsmat

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Looks to me like the bearing collapsed first...causing it to destroy the seal mate.

siscossie

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Going to change both bearings not having that again, got the bearing off the cam



You might be right rsmat do you know if they do uprated ones?

Glenn_

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Nightmare.Hopefully there is no more damage.It could of been worse.

siscossie

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That true mate just glad i spotted it when i did

Glenn_

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Your lucky some bits of the bearing could of fell into the timing belt and could of caused it to split/snap causing more damage.

Cragrat

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Ooof! Close call there Si...

siscossie

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too close for comfort mate

siscossie

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Got the inlet cam out and cant see any damage, just waiting for the new bearings. Got new seals and spacers aswell also a new grA cambelt and tensioner, will change all the belts while im at it.


Was thinking about maybe upgrading the cams?

COLEYST200

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very lucky mate that could of locked up done the belt and bent all the valves

siscossie

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That happened on my sapph something got wrapped round the cambelt, a very exspensive rebuild gutted.
Never seen this before is it a common thing?

Cossiemainful

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Never seen this before, too!
But ball bearings are wearing faster than slide bearings if I'm not wrong.
Maybe a fatigue?

Anyway you're very lucky. Could be much worse.
Good luck with the maintenance. It's not a common thing I guess.

siscossie

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Had me baffled for a while too, if i replace everything with new should be safe and sound again.

Bailes1992

I never knew there was bearings on the cam on engines what so ever! I just thought is was much like the big ends where you just have two polished metal surfaces with pressured oil in between.
Learn something new every day!

Big Will_

How tight was your cambelt?

Alg1k

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cam belt TOOOO tight

Cossiemainful

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It just occurred to me.... that's quite possible.

siscossie

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I was always told to make sure you could twist the belt 90degrees when it was tesioned up, and that was about right. Is this not the case?

whosyadaddy

That was my first thought when i saw the state of the bearing.

siscossie

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Parts have come so cracked on tonight new bearings and spacers and seals all in, started to strip the cambelt off and taken alternator off for a tidy up.

siscossie

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Managed to get in the garage today and get the car back together and fire her up, all seems good just going to rerap the exhaust with some more heat wrap. Alittle video of it running

busa bob

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Wow How lucky are you ? Could of been hell of a lot worse mate, glad it werent and you've fixed it

siscossie

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Cheers bud glad its running again