Pulled my cam plate yesterday and the inside tensioner was in pieces and the chain had actually ate into the housing on the tensioner the oil pump seems to look ok but what kind of problems can i expect from this happening?

 

Get all of those pieces out of there.. Hoping that the oil filter will pick up most of it..Get out what you can..

 

How many miles on the bike?

 

How many miles indeed, (and can we assume it's a 2004 motorcycle?)

 

Almost 80,000

 

Wow. That is a lot of miles.

 

Whats the chances my pump is damaged?

 

If you had oil pressure I would not worry..But 80,000? Mine were shot at 18,000 on my 06 88 motor...

 

I did mine at 40K and they were not even half worn.

Drew

 

I was experiencing intermittent oil pump failure so I took everything apart. I noticed that my cam tensioners were about 3/4 worn and small pieces missing. When I took apart the oil pump, the walls of the pump were scored, causing the loss of oil pressure. I have to believe small pieces of the cam tensioner got inside the oil pump and damaged the walls. If I were you I'd check the pump just to be on the safe side.