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Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: My 1500 Piper cam is seized
From: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:00:55 -0400
Cc: spridgets <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Organization: Mumford Bros. Racing
References: <35393B83.8FC81148@rpi.edu> <353A47E8.FB940A6C@brit.ca>
Reply-to: Eric Mumford <mumford@rpi.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>   Sadly, it likely won't budge because there is a massive tangle
> of bent valves jamming it that way.

Hrm.  I hope not.  So are you suggesting that the timing chain broke
FIRST, the pistons pummeled the valves into au gratin potatoes gone
wrong, and locked the camshaft?


If it was the chain that broke... could I hold my parts supplier of the
chain at fault for that?

>   Lift the rocker cover, prepare for the worst.

I took the valve cover off and everything looked normal.

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