When I had the oil pan off after finding "silver sludge" in the oil a few
years back, I was able to tell that some lobes were no longer egg-shaped.
As far as I know you cannot inspect the tappets without at least removing
the camshaft.
At 10:32 PM 8/19/2002, Nick Gemas wrote:
>Anyone know if you can inspect a camshaft by removing the oil pan and
>checking it from the bottom? Anyone out there in the process of a rebuild
>maybe? If so can you see all the lobes? I suspect the last one back on cyl.6
>has gone south.
>
>Thanks All,
>
>Nick Gemas
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