Picture Evidence of an Almost Cam Failure

10/10/2009

Should I tell him to put it all back together and start it just one more time?

I've been helping a fellow off list with an odd engine noise. Here's
what I got in my inbox tonight.

Looks fine to me.....(TIC)
NOT!

:-\
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Eric Lehmann
97 Ebony 42k Welded - With the Angels Now so that I don't have to be.
Long Live the Garage Queen !
97 Ebony 190k Resurrected, Welded
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96 Medium Willow Green Metallic 125k Resurrected, Welded, Eaton M90 inside
96 Rosemist 74k 2006 Best Of SHO, Popular Vote, 2007 Best Gen 3, Welded

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I know, I'm Cartering.

2 things.

1 - this is an obvious double cam failure. I'll try to get info from the owner.

2 - these are some of the best "at death's doorway" pictures I've
seen, and I think they should go up on V8SHO.com in a warning box or
something.
"Think you're having an impending cam failure? Look at your sprockets
and then look at THESE"
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In the words of the great ones "another one bites the dust"

Loukas Zannopoulos
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I agree on those pictures being a good example, and they should be put up on the site. Maybe they could be arrowed though too for anyone who's not exactly sure what they're looking at/for. I mean I know it seems pretty obvious, but just to help Joe Schmoe researching the V8 SHO and then wanting to know more about this problem he had never heard of before.

- TIM B. -
Previous '96 Silver Frost
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We've seen a few like that. Just a turn of the key from failure.

Doug Lewis
Ford Performance Specialists Inc
96 Charcoal Grey 142k - Resurrected, Welded

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