Not to long ago, I had a verizon bucket truck in the shop that had a nasty oil leak out of the bottom of the generator. They had told us that they installed numerous main seals and it still leaks. We removed the genset from the truck and disassembled it. We found that the crank had a couple of deep vertical gouges in it. Verizon declined the repair and instead sent us a new genset to install. Since the old unit is now ours, I carefully jb welded over the gouges and sanded them smooth with a scotch brite pad. We put the thing back together and ran it for a few days and it didn't leak a bit. I wasn't sure if the repair would hold since the seal rubs directly over the jb weld but we use it on our service truck and it doesn't leak yet. In a message dated 5/13/2009 8:09:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am working on a friends car. It is a '97 that they only had for 1 week. They brought the car to me with a horrible oil leak (engine was 3 quarts low on oil) and a 110K mile engine without any history. I put a new timing belt, water pump and seals in the car and then scrapped/washed all the old oil up. After putting the car back together I find that the intake camshaft has a bad gouge in it (well, more like someone took a dremel or something and cut a flat spot in it). Of course I didn't see this when I had everything apart! <G>. Anyway, I was fixing to order a used camshaft and started thinking that maybe I could try to repair it with some JB Weld and then sand it smooth. My thoughts are that it won't hurt to at least try to fill in the hole AND the camshaft is already worn with the lifters where another camshaft might not. What do you guys think? Do you normally replace the lifters as well? I am pretty sure the owner does not want to get too much invested in the repair (i.e. new camshaft and new lifters).
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