rust on camshaft and in intake?

[deercrusher]

Hey everyone,
I just bought a sho that supposedly needs a crank sensor. They guy I bought the car from had most of the pulleys and timing covers off already - job just not finished.

So I pulled out the cam tensioner pulley, the timing belt, the cam sprockets and the rear timing cover. I noticed a medium coat of surface rust on the right camshaft (in front of the cam seal). Is this something to be concerned about? I also noticed what appears to be rust inside of the intake ( had the end off with the dis and looked in there).

Any recommendations? ie. don't worry about it - or should I sand away the rust on the end of the cam - and put my old intake on from the other sho?

 

[Phoenix]

The intake is made of aluminum it wont rust , its just gunk you are seeing (needs a good cleaning).

The cams , surface rust is fine on the lobes. If theres rust on the journals - then I would be concerned a bit.

 

[AREA 91]

Use a scotch brite pad, and lightly sand away the surface rust.
You don't want any pitting or rust where the cam seal rides on the cam.

 

[deercrusher]

thanks for the input. The surface rust on the cam is only where the sprocket was when I took it off. I'll scotch brite it when I take the seal out. Just ordered all of the front 60k parts so I'll do that when the replacements come. As for the intake -then damn that's alot of gunk. I guess I'll just put my old one on there. Thanks again.