I took some pictures of the exhaust lobe of my camshaft. I think it's a bit worn but still good. But I'm no expert. Can you tell from the pictures if it's still good to use?

 

From what I can tell the exhaust lobe looks as good as the intake lobes.Not all cam lobes wore down,but quite a few did from from the old Magnum 425s and Sportsman 500s until the HO cams came out .

 

Thank you!

 

The 4th pic looks the best as far as any excessively worn places on the exhaust lobe. Lobes appears ok. While you're there adjust/check the valve clearance.

 

The clearance was off. Hopefully explains some of my issues with hard starts, impossible hot starts, some excessive noise, idle issues. The valves were all too tight.

Will put it back together today, need to clean the cover so I can put on a new gasket. First time using a feeler gauge, so I'll double check the clearances I set too.