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Old 06-18-2022, 10:39 PM
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Opinion on intake cam wear

I finally found the time to remove my old cam adjusters. Do you think my intake cams look okay to reuse? I personally think they look fine and are identical in wear to the exhaust cams but I'd appreciate second opinions. Thanks!








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Maybe best to provide photos of the cam lobes in good enough definition to make a good judgement.
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From what I can see they look good. How many miles and what year is the car?
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They look better than mine did @ 95,000klm.
I replaced the bucket lifters and cam adjustment plates (63motorsport) and engine now 110K/klm has been purring since like normal.
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Originally Posted by NZ-Merc
Maybe best to provide photos of the cam lobes in good enough definition to make a good judgement.
I will update with more pictures tomorrow after work.

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From what I can see they look good. How many miles and what year is the car?
Car is 2014 with 62k on the clock. I'll take more pictures tomorrow!

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They look better than mine did @ 95,000klm.
I replaced the bucket lifters and cam adjustment plates (63motorsport) and engine now 110K/klm has been purring since like normal.
That's awesome to hear! Not that yours were worn haha. I'm doing the same thing right now. I don't mind spending the money if they're needed which means doing the job once, but if they're good it would be nice to save some money on oem cams. It's a shame there isn't an affordable upgrade yet.
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Mine is a 2014 as well. The 2014 (maybe other facelift models too) have the valve springs from the SLS so our models have more wear than the previous years. I checked mine around the same mileage as yours and stuck with them. I did end up doing the same thing as Cwagon. Motor is super quite now!

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