What went wrong with these cam bearings?

ramcharger said
Yowwch! Looks like the the oil passages were not brushed and blown out with compressed air before assembley and some grit, crap, silicone, etc. got in there. Looks like a combo of oil starvation and contamination. You did lube the cam journals before sliding the cam in, right? Sorry man. :goodman:


Thats what Im guessing, it looks like something got pushed out of the oil hole and just wiped out the berrings. When I did my 360 rebuild one of the first things I bought when I picked up the block from the machiene shop was a set of bottle brushes in all differant sizes so I could scrub the hell out of all the oil passages. Was the cam new?