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1999 Magnum 500 camshaft

Hi everyone, I just picked up a 1999 magnum 500 and I believe it has a bad cam. I’ve been reading about the issues the early 500s had with the cams and people have been using the 500 ho cams as replacements? Is that All I need is the new ho cam part number 3085855? And it will run like it should? Use all the regular 500 parts and the 500 ho cam? Thank you.

1999 Magnum 500 camshaft

Hi everyone, I just picked up a 1999 magnum 500 and I believe it has a bad cam. I’ve been reading about the issues the early 500s had with the cams and people have been using the 500 ho cams as replacements? Is that All I need is the new ho cam part number 3085855? And it will run like it should? Use all the regular 500 parts and the 500 ho cam? Thank you.

Full oil tank empty motor…

Just got done buttoning everything up after installing a new cam chain, hotcam, and tensioner. I poured maybe 1/4 of a quart of oil through the head the poured the rest of almost 2 quarts in the tank. At the moment I still have the exhaust off from the head waiting on new header gaskets so I can’t really run the engine. Iv tried cycling the motor with the plug out and no oil is coming to the bottom end and I’m checking both the oil check bolt and the crankcase oil bolt the the left side. Did I not install something right on the clutch side around the oil pump or does the motor have to be running in order to pull the oil to the motor just hate for it to run without oil after putting all this work into it