Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized

[Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>]

Eric Mumford wrote:
> 
> My engine stopped running while cruising at 60mph last week and I
> finally found the time to take the timing chain cover off.  As I
> suspected, the chain was hanging off the cam cog and had broken at the
> crank sprocket.  I took the chain out (and the little pieces), and put a
> rag around the cam sprocket and tried to turn it - it wouldn't budge.

  Sadly, it likely won't budge because there is a massive tangle
of bent valves jamming it that way.

  Lift the rocker cover, prepare for the worst.

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Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
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