Mike,
Please let us all know why a bad pad is bad considering the valves can still be adjusted. These questions I am posing are all part of a complete rocker arm lesson our guys might enjoy. Perhaps a nice tutorial with pictures could be included on our site.
Jerry
The only 1 pad i've seen that was bad was on that lumpy stick terry's got, and it chewed 1/8+ inch off of one of the lobes.
There's adjustment a plenty....... but when it's wearing down your cam lobe(s), you loose a LOT of power in the long run.
Not to mention that stellite is EXTREMELY hard.
And the area it's in, of one pad goes, the flakes can migrate to another area in the head accelerating wear on other good lobes and pads.
The oil filter would catch most of it...after it's gone through your oil pump.
So that 1 lobe and wear pad are not the only victims from the damage.
l8r
Once I was changing oil on the side of the road, during a trip (before the days when it polluted things...
), and while I was pouring in the new oil, a bee flew by and touched the Castrol 20w50. It sucked him right into the tank! I wondered about it for the next 5,000 miles. When I got home, the oil pressure had dropped almost 4 PSI at speed, so even a bug in the works is hard on an oil pump. I never found his bits in the filters, even though I tried. I guess the pump turned him into realy small pieces.
On the plus side, though: I've run that same oil pump this whole 130,000 miles. Now, it does not provide enough flow to push the on-filter bypass valve open, ever. And, if I ride for more than 40 minutes, the engine shows signs of poor lube at low speeds. Guess I'd better put in that (younger) pump that you sent me, Soos!
