chargervert
Well-Known Member
I picked up a 70 HP 2 engine,it was rebuilt,and appears to have decent quality parts in it. The guy I got it from had stored the engine in his garage for a few years with no intake on it. The mice decided it was a good place to make a home out of,and they made their nest there. I vacuumed out the debris,which wasn't a lot. I lubed up the cylinders,the cam,and lifters and the rocker arms,and got the engine rotating fairly easily. The cam appeard to have white lithium grease sprayed on it before he stored it. After cleaning up the cam,which still had break in lube the edges of the lobes. The number three intake lobe,and number 6 exhaust lobe have some pitting on them. The rest of the cam looks good. I am thinking that I should just pull the cam lifters and springs and replace them,does anyone think that the pitting on those lobes will chew up the lifters,or would it be ok to try to run it,since it is already broken in. I am leaning towards swapping it out,it just sucks that a new cam is probably junk because of poor storage.