can you identify this
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can you identify this
pulled the head off my truck today. I was cleaning the gasket areas and noticed a spring behind the chain guide in the oil filter side of the engine.
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...0936Medium.jpg
heres what i found where did it come from?
I was just wedged behind where the bolt goes into the guide....Right side of the truck for drivers seat
http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/q...0936Medium.jpg
heres what i found where did it come from?
I was just wedged behind where the bolt goes into the guide....Right side of the truck for drivers seat
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is the chain tensioner still intact? It's the only thing I can think of that would have a spring in the vicinity. Which would mean the tensioner head is probably (hopefully) in the oil pan. Were you pulling the head because you thought you had a headgasket leak and water in the oil? If so and the fact that if this is the chain tensioner you better take that timing cover off and check it for leaks as the chain most likely wore a hole in the cover.
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let me take a pic, and you will see one that grenaded. But, that spring doesnt look long enough to be from the tensioner, mine, uncompressed is like 3 inches long! let me fund the camer and ill show what went wrong a couple days ago in my runner.
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Here ya go. Just did my timing chain, this guy was making some nasty noises.
Here you can see where the tensioner pole rode on the outside for a while.
here is kind of a view of how it was sitting. by the time i got to it the tensioner pad had completely flipped around, with the rubber side to the tensioner and the pole piece to the chain.
Here is the pile of remnants from the oil pan
And here is the spring in question. i think it looks longer than his, but not sure.
Here you can see where the tensioner pole rode on the outside for a while.
here is kind of a view of how it was sitting. by the time i got to it the tensioner pad had completely flipped around, with the rubber side to the tensioner and the pole piece to the chain.
Here is the pile of remnants from the oil pan
And here is the spring in question. i think it looks longer than his, but not sure.
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tensioner is intact! i pulled head because i was getting anitfreeze in exhaust, noticed it yesterday hwhen i was hooking up to my trailer.... left truck running and could smell it! Nothing is broken, but I havent pulled the cover. I have 20 years as a mechanic, just not a yoda specialist. spring is about 3/8 diam and 1 1/2 long?
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if and when you find out what this is let us know. I just got doing a rebuild and cannot remember anything with a spring in it except the tensioner and valve springs.
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well i appreciate the input,.. but i know i didnt come from the valve train. Fuel pump? How did these parts end up on top of the chain guides?
I will let you know WHEN i find out what it came from...
I will let you know WHEN i find out what it came from...
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turn the macro setting on your camera on (flower icon). then hold lightly on the button till it beeps then push the rest of the way down and it should come out better.
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Fuel pump!!! I just had mine of today, when i put it back on after the t-chain, it was leaking, so i pulled it off to re-seal it, that is without a doubt, the fuel pump spring. small and with a good amount of tension.
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you know what it might be, I am almost certain now that I think about it there is a spring on the top side of the plunger arm that rests on the cam eccentric. Easy to find out its only 2 bolts to take the fuel pump off.
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