Well, I had her just past break in on the new cam, and the head cover decided to spring a leak. I figured it was time to readjust the valves anyway so I let her sit overnight and opened it up in the morning. There was a good oil bath under the cam lobes and they looked happy, dry valve springs on the side that had been leaking but i figured they'd be fine until the oil got flowing. Well when i layed my line of silicone maybe i went to thick, maybe I filled an oil line with and and let it dry cause let me tell you guys... Phew.. Started right up after getting back together, took off for a ride. Did an hour or two and was making my way home when it started to whine... No bangs, no strange pops but then it cut off. I tried to restart and it just spun the starter, the motor wasn't turning at all. I just new it was that darn tensioner, because I decided not to mess with it. Slept in front of a church for a couple hours till someone with truck could come get me, the gods were smiling on me, it was a nice day. Got it home and today I opened it up again. Where my nice new performance cam bolts to the sprocket was broken off, the lobes were ground down and seemed burned, the rockers were in the same shape. The camchain guide housing was nicely chewed and one of the journal bearings seems to have a small scratch.. I may still be able to use the head if i get in there with a dremel and take off all the chunks and shavings of metal, but i need to really look at the journals and see if they're gone. It didn't seem like any oil passages were blocked by siligoop so i wonder what starved the top end in a couple hours time... I had to stop dealing with it less insanity set in. I'll take a good look tommorrow and take some pics to post here, i can at least serve as a warning to others.
Planned on riding the dragon this weekend, guess that's gonna wait a bit... Unless i buy that 805cc suzuki twin i saw on ebay... nice 1991 standard/cafe type. Then I could take my time with the savage.. For now though, i'm going back to my beer to see if it advises me to toss some more money at another reground cam.
Oh yeah, can't wait to buy ANOTHER head gasket and see if any friendly little metal chunks got into the cylinder, may need that piston order to go through sooner than i thought!!
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