My Saito 115 took a dump today. I opened it up and the camshaft supports had both broken. The cam jamed up and really screwed up the crankshaft, crankcase and of course the cam. The cam and surrounding area seemed quite dry of oil, not completely dry, but not wet with oil either. This engine was only 5 months old and has used about 2 gallons of Coolpower 15% fuel. It appears that the failure was due to a lack of lubrication in the cam bearings, even though the crankcase was literally dripping oil when I removed the back plate. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this type of failure on this engine. I talked to Horizon Hobby and they said to send it in and they'd look at it. I'm hopeing that this isn't some kind of a design problem as I just got another 115 that hasn't even been started yet. So has anyone seen this before, or do you think it was just a fluke happening?
Paul