[Shotimes] CAM bearings and/or CAMs

[Kevin & Cheryl Airth]

John:
 Before changing engines at least drop the pan and take a look. Hitting the
rev limiter is a daily experience for my SHO. It does not hurt the car!
That's why the limiter is there! More than one engine has spun a rod bearing
and did not damage the crank. I still don't get it? The engine is knocking
and the guy drove it home? Why? Tow truck charges are cheaper than a new
engine.
.
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> You might be Right.  This is what I'm hearing fom a
> lot of good poeple who know their stuff.  That there's
> no such thing as a CAM Bearing, just the Heads on the
> journals itself.    That it's the CRANK or ROD
> Bearing.. :(
>
> Are Rod bearings the next most-likely thing to go?
>
> I don't know how they determined this, I think they
> only doing a guessing game at this stage.   Just by
> listening and such.
>
>
> I'll relay the message..   I have a spare engie in my
> garage.  I think that's the next best thing to do.
> But how much should I offer it away? how to transport
> it?  How many guys to take to move that thing?  Just a
> simply flat-bed pickup truck would do? Should I line
> it?
>
> Oh well.  Poor kid over rev.ed his engine three times
> in a row, hitting the rev-limitter, slipped off the
> brake pedal and pressed the brake and gass pedal at
> the same time.   Turns out after the rev-limitter hit
> three times, he developed the knock.  Goes home
> right-a-way, rests the car, checks the oil, and it's
> almost to the little hole on the stick.  What is that,
> three quarts low or something?
>
> So that's the story..
>
> Thanks ya'll for your help and chiming in..   I'm
> trying to help the poor kid.
>
>
> -John.
> --- Kevin & Cheryl Airth <clubairth@peoplepc.com>
> wrote:
>
> > John:
> >  Who decided that it's a cam bearing? Never heard of
> > one going out? Sounds
> > much more like a rod bearing?
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> >
> > > Hello,,
> > >
> > > I have a friend in Rockwall Texas who, aparrently
> > ran
> > > low on oil, now has a loud knocking noise.   Turns
> > > out, it's a CAM bearing, and looking for one or
> > maybe
> > > two..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How much do they run?
> > >
> > > Where can I help him order one?
> > >
> > > What else could be wrong?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It's been, or he has determined, that it's the
> > bearing
> > > between the last two cylinders on the
> > passenger-side
> > > closest to the firewall.   I think Exhaust CAM.
> > Any
> > > ideas, suggestions? Thanks. :)  Appreciate all the
> > > help you can.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -John