Before I allowed a dealer to hit me for $6k to replace a cam and lifters,
I'd go aftermarket (Jasper) and price a reman crate engine at a
good independent shop.
Bet you can get a Jasper swapped in for less or similar.
That gets you a nationwide warranty on an engine rebuilt to
at least new quality. Likely better.
OEM often builds components with weak spots.
Accident, mistake, on purpose? Who knows?
But, getting the dealer to put a be cam in might just get
you another cam built of the same steel, heat treat...
Same bad cam?
OEMs are happy to keep having the same bad parts, sometimes
for deades. Especially if they are post warranty problems.
The aftermarket on the otherhand, sees these issues and figures
out how to improve them.
Subaru head gaskets are a great example.
They have used the same schidt design forever, despite the resulting
problems that have damaged their reliability reputation.
It's well known that a Subaru with 80k on the clock is flirting with a
blown head gasket. Replace it with a Fel-Pro, and you won't have another
problem. For hundreds of thousands of miles.
