As there didn’t seem to be any end float at all in the cam shafts. I removed the nuts off of the end to remove the pinions and the cam shafts. These are both left handed threads. The one on the left drives the oil pump hence the machined in rod that is offset.
Here’s the right side or exhaust cam pinion nut with some tell tale marks showing how it’s been removed and tightened up by someone in the past. Notice all the weenie bits of metal.
It’s a fairly recently replaced cam shaft
With the threads now buggered from hammering on the nut. These are hardened steel so are fairly brittle and splinter rather than bend.
That’ll be new camshafts then…
