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1. My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>; Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:47:15 -0400; 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 th; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00604.html (8,943 bytes)
2. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "Matt Liggett" <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>; Date: 19 Apr 1998 13:30:22 -0000; Did you put in new cam bearings? -- <mml@pobox.com> Matt Liggett '60 Mini, '70 Midget, '89 SAAB 900t SPG; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00615.html (8,609 bytes)
3. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@icx.net>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:51:13 -0400; 1500s don't have cam bearings... adrian; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00616.html (8,599 bytes)
4. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "William West" <will_thane@email.msn.com>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:48:32 -0700; The mighty 1500 was designed not to use cam bearings. Strange, but true! Eric, is it possible that there was a problem with oil flow to the cam? You cleaned the oil passages, I'm assuming... Did you; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00617.html (9,395 bytes)
5. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:29:52 -0400; I did a full rebuild on the block - including hot-tanking it. Any crud that was in there was cleaned out. Visual inspection of the block verified it was good and clean. I had no problem maintaining; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00618.html (10,072 bytes)
6. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Les Myer <lmyer@sprynet.com>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:21:12 -0400; Geez! I had no idea! Those crazy Brits! Did they use a true rear main oil seal on the 1500? Les; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00619.html (8,969 bytes)
7. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 14:52:24 -0400; 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. -- Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada. tboicey@brit.ca, htt; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00621.html (9,389 bytes)
8. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:00:55 -0400; Hrm. I hope not. So are you suggesting that the timing chain broke FIRST, the pistons pummeled the valves into au gratin potatoes gone wrong, and locked the camshaft? If it was the chain that broke.; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00622.html (9,632 bytes)
9. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:37:29 -0400; Frank and list Okay people, NEED THE INFO here, you know? This information would have made a SLIGHT impact on my choice of suppliers for a timing chain! Good grief! The timing chain is kind of an INT; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00623.html (10,683 bytes)
10. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "William West" <will_thane@email.msn.com>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 15:42:44 -0700; I, too, learned a Moss lesson. While installing my cylinder head, using brand spanking new head studs supplied by Moss, I stripped one out at 40 ft. lbs. On my second attempt, yet another of those h; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00626.html (9,283 bytes)
11. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:02:15 +0100; At the risk of sounding like a manufacturer advert for only using genuine parts, there is an important moral here - which obviously doesn't help the vehicle owner in his present dilemma. The cost to; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00628.html (11,231 bytes)
12. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:43:23 -0400; Well, since your "incident" occured at speed, it is almost guaranteed that there was a time the engine was turning over with the cam either stopped or turning over out of sync with the pistons. Pisto; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00630.html (10,195 bytes)
13. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:31:31 -0400; Rather appropriate in this thread Larry, considering the car in question is an MG brought to a screetching halt by a failed Triumph engine. -- Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada. tboicey@brit.ca, http://w; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00632.html (9,194 bytes)
14. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:31:47 +0100; I'm priviledged - a K-nitehood! Looks like we're both singing from the same hymn sheet. It's just that I've never been able to understand why people spend years and oodles of caboodle getting their; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00647.html (10,440 bytes)
15. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: P Van Wig <PVanWig@aol.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:27:01 EDT; << At the risk of sounding like a manufacturer advert for only using genuine parts, there is an important moral here - which obviously doesn't help the vehicle owner in his present dilemma. The cost; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00667.html (10,672 bytes)
16. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:34:17 -0400; ...it must be said however that this is how people end up with $20,000 spitfires. (that frankly about 1 in 1000 people can tell from the tidy $5000 spitfires) All brand-loyalty aside, I love my cars; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00669.html (9,058 bytes)
17. Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized (score: 1): Author: "Matt Liggett" <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>; Date: 21 Apr 1998 12:19:50 -0000; There is a place for us to talk about our experiences (hopefully both good and bad) on the net for posterity. The Monster List: http://www.dimebank.com/monster/vendors.html Find your vendor there or; /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00674.html (8,796 bytes)

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