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[cal844]

It is recommended to use assembly lube but if you run the starter to build oil pressure it should be OK.

No, it shouldn't. Building oil pressure on the starter only ensures some oil reaching the main bearings. Cam loves are lubricated by the oil splash coming off the conrods. That's why we need to keep the revs high on the first 20 minutes while the followers bedding in.

Would it be possible to put some oil down where the pushrod sit? Even just to rule out the camshaft, followers etc. If the other checks do not rule anything out, then I'd now be stripping the motor.

You could pour assembly lube down those holes if you forgot it, yes. But after starting the engine the damage is done.

That's what I thought, the OP would now be best to strip the motor to renew the cam kit (at the very least)

Edited by cal844, 28 October 2020 - 08:23 PM.

[Ethel]

I think I'd give it a chance. If you have done in the cam & followers there'd be nothing to save or worry about making worse. You could probably get a reasonable view through the fuel pump & dizzy holes & also measure the cam lift for an indication.

[cal844]

I think I'd give it a chance. If you have done in the cam & followers there'd be nothing to save or worry about making worse. You could probably get a reasonable view through the fuel pump & dizzy holes & also measure the cam lift for an indication.

That's another way to put things, if a camshaft isn't run in how it should be it won't really affect much IMO

[Ethel]

I've destroyed followers (not A Series) in under 50 miles doing daft things, but it's not been catastrophic.

[zack88]

Cheers for the input and suggestions guys. Not sure i would see much through the dizzy hole apart from gear drive.

It has an electric pump, so the lobe for the mechanical pump should be good.

 

I didn't have a screw driver suitable to listen to the engine, so i have ordered a stethoscope.

Hopefully that will help me pinpoint the source of the noise.