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Steel camshaft for Kawasaki FD440V
- Thread starter Al Becker
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Auto Doc's
Lawn Addict
Look it up by the information on the engine label and see if there is a replacement steel cam offered.
Unfortunately, Kawasaki stopped making these steel camshafts available four years ago. There are no new ones available and none are being made by the aftermarket. From the service manual for the FD440 and FD 501, the dimensions for the end ods and love diameters are the same.Look it up by the information on the engine label and see if there is a replacement steel cam offered.
Auto Doc's
Lawn Addict
Time to start looking for an older core engine for the cam. I have had to do that a couple of times for different model engines.
Plastic cam designs are just another factory engineered failure point that people do not expect. The industry is trying to do away with small engines, especially on the consumer side.
Plastic cam designs are just another factory engineered failure point that people do not expect. The industry is trying to do away with small engines, especially on the consumer side.
Deere specified plastic camshaft gears for noise reduction. Plastic gears were used on engines for golf carts also. It was not an engineering failure. And you, @Auto Doc's are likely no engineer. This gentleman’s FD440V is 30+ years old. That’s some ‘failure’, huh?