Top end teardown after a blown head gasket revealed deep scratching on one rocker pad and light scratching on its matching cam lobe. The rest of the surfaces looked normal wear to me, at least no gouges.
In my ignorance, I figured just sand off the scratches on the rocker pad and adjust to compensate. Evidently after the fact i'm reading that that was a very bad idea.
So I have one bad rocker with a questionable cam lobe.
I'm a cheap, cheap guy (teacher in SD, currently last in the states for teacher pay).
What is my best choice of action?
part it out?
This bike is not a high performance machine, I just use to buzz to school and back, short trips.
I would prefer to just replace the rocker and slap it together for another 5000 miles.
Is that a disastrous idea?
thanks