hi all,
I was recently given, a thick flanged barrell,in very good nick ,but with slight damage to the bores,however after a visit to a machine shop, the bores cleaned up nicely to +60,which suited my 'rockets existing pistons.
so as i wasn't completely happy with the thin flanged barrells that i was already using, (some broken fins ect) i deceided to swap barrells.
when i removed the cam followers, (with less than 500 miles on them) from my superrockets thin flanged barrells,i discovered them to be badly scuffed ,but on inspection of the camshaft lobes, they dont seem to be as badly marked. i had no trouble dressing up one of the followers surface using 240 grit sandpaper on a flat surface,
i would of thought that its surface would have been a lot harder, so to my question, are my aftermarket followers a bit on the "soft side" ?(krap),
has anyone else been down this road?
the first pic. shows the follower that i dressed alongside one of the scuffed ones