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Thanks for the input. We did file it down but it's a pretty good gouge. Hubby wasn't sure if filling it would work or not and was hesitant to do all the work of pulling it apart and having it fail again. Although, we're actually getting pretty good at disassembling and reassembling now... We'll give this a try and see how it goes.

Hello all, Long time lurker - first time posting. I have a 1999 Impreza with an ej22 motor. While doing recent maintenance of belts/pulleys/seals that included a cam seal replacement (that didn't actually need to be replaced but "While we have it apart..."), the driver side camshaft ended up with a gouge in it when the old seal was being pulled and now it leaks for real. Sigh... So now we have a project on our hands. I didn't find any other threads addressing this so, if I missed one, please help with the link to it and we'll gladly peruse the discussion and come back to this with any questions that might not have been answered. In the absence of that, some questions before we get started: Ordering a replacement camshaft...recommendations? (The bone yards in our neck of the woods have pretty slim pickins so getting a used one is iffy.) Any tidbits of information, oddities, etc that would be good to know about doing a camshaft replacement on this particular motor? And though I shudder to even write this... while we have it apart, recommendations on any other items we should address? (Motor is at 140K and, other than this particular issue, no problems.) Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.