So as me and my mechanic was doing a cam swap the stock cam became hard to pull my mechanic began to say the first bearing was floating are as got it out the cam had a black line running down as seen in the picture and the bearing looked worned can you guys give me some advice on how to tackle this

 

New bearings. Plain and simple. You might as well get it checked to make sure it didn't damage the bore as well.

 

Thanks for respond doing that ASAP should I wait to buy bearing to see what size I would be using now ? If you get what I'm asking

 

You can't buy singles, you have to get a set. If it is LS and that is the middle bearing I believe it is the smallest bore? So if needed you might be able to hone it out to one of the bigger bored bearings. But I would take it to a shop and have them check it unless you have a boroscope. I don't think shops charge too much to do cam bearings anyways.

 

Off to a machine shop you go.
I'm doing cam tunnels now on a sbc and its 300 bux or so to fix them.

 

You might as well get that whole block cleaned up at this point. All new rings, bearings etc.

 

It's an 97 LT1

 

Everything else looks good I guess th guy did a quick rebuild the freeze plugs are brass so if he change anything around the cam he must've did it wrong .. Or idk man but another headache ..

 

How does it look from those pics bad or you seen worst with people running?

 

If the previous owner did the bearings...
1) Maybe the oil hole didn't line up = little or no oil = excessive wear. The black line lines up with the groove in the bearings, and there was no wear there.
2) Are the cam bearings' outer diameters different front to rear? Maybe the oil hole DID line up initially, but they put too small a bearing in that bore, and it spun, and became like #1.

Either way, engine is coming out to get a new set of cam bearings.