Any ideas on repairing the hole from a timing chain?
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Any ideas on repairing the hole from a timing chain?
Bought a used pickup and recently learned about the timing chain guides breaking around 130k, noticed a slight rattle so I took off the valve cover and sure enough the timing chain guide was completely gone on the drivers side, and the chain had left some grooves along with a roughly 4 mm hole into the water/coolant. There's no contamination in the oil yet, so i think the coolant level has been low enough since the hole appeared that none of it has leaked into the engine. Any advice on ways to patch this hole? Im obviously replacing the missing chain guide with the steel backed one off enginebldr.
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For $130.00 you can replace it all. Go to ebay.com type this number in the search menu 200748501304 buy that kit and install it. I have that very same kit installed on my 87 pickup. I have several thousands of miles on it and its still quiet as a mouse. I'm highly satisfied with the quality if parts there.
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I would not recommend trying to fix it, you don't want the weld to fail down the road again and be back to square 1. Best to replace and know you'll be good for another 130k.
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If you have it repaired make sure that the person that is doing the repair, does not over heat and warp the cover. I recently worked on a friends truck ,that had the tc repaired and replaced after the original was broken. The man working on it gave up after several attempts to fix the problem of no oil pressure. We also found that the cover was badly worn were the oil pump runs. Between the two problem it couldn't build oil pressure.
Last edited by swampfox; 04-17-2013 at 04:13 PM.
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