How to check that a crank and cam shaft are good to use? Options

[Tdskip]

Hello gentlemen-hope everybody had a good weekend and is staying safe.

Like many of you I’m trying to use the extra time at home to sort through parts, and I’ve got two 2.0L cranks and camshafts that have been wrapped up in newspaper in stored for anywhere from 10 to 20 years.

Beyond looking for nicks or signs of heat and any corrosion, could you guys educate me on what I should be looking at to determine if these things are any good?

Imagine getting a micrometer on the crank to determine size it would be a good step?

Thanks

[Mark Henry]

Check the lifters, not the cam. Lifter faces are slightly convex, if they're flat or concave I'd replace the cam and lifters. Easy to see if you hold two lifters face to face up to a light.

Back in the day you could stick new lifters on an ok used cam, but I wouldn't try that now. In the mid 2000's the T4 had huge lifter/cam supply and quality issues. Long story short it's why you now have to go with known combo's of cams and lifters.