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Attached are pictures of the cam followers. I see that 3 of them have some light pitting or flaking and one shows signs that it has stopped rotating and the nose of the cam shaft is beginning to wear into its surface. The pitting could be attributed to anything including lack of assembly lube...

I've pulled the camshaft and lifters. For the indicated time on this engine, I and very surprised to find so little wear on the cam and followers. Indeed, the cylinder bores and pistons show very little wear especially when compared to the amount of wear I found on the front camshaft bearing.

I finally got time and money to come together and the UPS guy delivered my ebay pop tester this week so I can FINALLY get onto the FI service and valve adjustment I've been promising Henry. It occured to me this morning that I will probably not be putting many injectors through this pump. It...

VERY useful post. This is turning into one of those threads that will get cut and pasted into the back of my log book. For the record and for anyone who needs them, does anybody know where these various seals can be purchased? How about the correct "by the book" names, if any, of these seals...

Very Good! I hadn't added that into the equation. I sure can't see where the low oil pressure would be helping anything.

LD-465 Maint.Man.TM9-2815-210-34-2-2 can be found on-line here: http://www.jatonkam35s.com/DeuceTechnicalManuals/LD-465Maint.Man.TM9-2815-210-34-2-2.pdf

I don't know ... and, unless we "hobbyists" find an order somewhere in a TM or can do our own side by side comparison of the two shafts, ... I doubt we will ever find out. I sincerely doubt that contacting White, Hercules or Continental or anybody else for that matter will get us any...

No. If there is a plug back there, it's behind the flywheel. You'd have to pull the trans, clutch and flywheel and whatever else is back there to get it out that way. Sometime this weekend I should have the engine off my truck and in a position where it would be a bit safer to pull the side...

The better question is ... Is it possible to do an "in-frame" cam BEARING replacement .... perhaps as a PM BEFORE the cam breaks. That would depend on how easy the last bearing comes out ... and that is another thing I'm looking at.

I'm seeing it the other way around. Although the area behind the first bearing was perfect for this type of damage, I don't think the cam would have broken if the bearing weren't so baddly worn. The TM indicates the bearing was way beyond the wear limit. Sometime this weekend I should be able...

This is consistent with the information found in the TM. The bearings are all different size bigger in the front, smaller in the rear. I have seen this before on other inline engines of what might be called "older" design and assumed, although never asked that it might have something to do...

I've been wondering this myself and have been trying to come up with a way to measure it. My thinking is that I should mark the bearing in a way to indicate UP and FRONT, then carefully remove the bearing ... and then measure it's thickness's with a micrometer anywhere I want to. I'm also...

The cylinder heads are off. There isn't as much carnage as you would think, only a couple shallow "smiles" in the top of a couple pistons, only a couple shiny spots on the edges of a couple valves. It looks like the pushrods took most of the hit. Apart from that ... nothing abnormal about the...

This is something I've been thinking about. If a cam is going to fail ... that spot is exactly where it would. There is 1/2" of shaft between the bearing journal and the first lobe on the cam ... I think enough room, if you cut into the journal a little, to machine in a rounded corner without...

Have you considered converting that gasoline engine to dual (propane/gasoline) fuel ... or finding a little diesel engine that will run on a WMO blend? A gen set is pretty much a boat anchor if it only runs on one fuel ... and you ain't got any more. If you're talking about survival ... "Two...

PLUS 1. It's inexpensive and easily done. Oil analysis ain't a cure, but it sure is good for a head's up. Cheap insurance especially for those who put a lot of miles on their Deuce.

I have a sample and its getting analyzed. I also have the filters (spin-ons) and will be cutting them open to examine the entrails.

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions about developing a PM out of what I've found on this tear down, not just yet any way. There is still too much work to be done. Heck ... the other 90% of the camshaft is still in the block. Also, remember that this is only ONE engine and the only one I've...

Nothing visible. I checked pretty close, and could not see anything. I'm sure that there must be a clearance between teeth spec, but with the camshaft being broken and rocking up and down, I was unable to check it. Were I to rebuild this engine, I think I would actually try to reuse these...