L31MaxExpress
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I don't think 160k is "low"?...but on a SBC, it's not "high", either. Last Vortec truck I had, sold it with 300k. That's "high" to me, although it still ran and performed like new. I haven't looked at the cam gear teeth, but will before I put the distributor back in. Not much I can do about the cam though; I'd run it until it fails (if it ever does), then change the cam.
And no oil pressure at the same time? Like I said; when you consider ALL the symptoms....
Glad you got yours fixed. Mine's not the cap and rotor, though.
I misread what you posted. I thought you got it fired back up again and it did not have oil pressure. Did not make sense that it ran and did not have oil pressure. Re-reading your first post, realized it never re-fired.
I doubt the cam wore being it is steel. I have seen cast iron cams wear gears, but extremely unusual for 5150 cam to wear the gears. I have gone through a couple LT1s that ate the oil pump drive gear to the point of losing pressure and the cam was untouched.