If you have installed a new timing chain set and steel guides...
did you notice some extra noise when you blip the throttle from the chain on the new guides?

 

I think i would expect it to transfer noise through the metal guides more than the plastic ones...

 

did you replace the bolts correctly ? this bolt goes directly threw the cover , and will contact the chain tensioner stopping it from doing its job

 

No extra noise on my 92 22RE with steel guide on driver side. Been installed over three years now.

 

I thought the same thing that the metal guides do make at least a different sound than plastic ones

After removing the timing cover for the 6th time getting to a no leak place.
I think, I know all the right length bolts were in the right spot, and put some fipg over the end of the bolt inside the cover to keep it from seeping oil... good info though and I could see how that could happen

Maybe I'm just super/ hyper sensitive and hearing stuff that it's always made but, I'm just now hearing it... heck I'm so old in thankful I can still hear.

 

What brand of tensioner did you get?

 

I did the LCE chain kit. I think as long as its metal backed, it should be a quality product. Its a regular maintenance item anyways, so Id get whatever you can find a good price on, which is usually not LCE stuff.

The truck I have now has a metal backed guide but its got probably 150k miles on it according to the previous owner. Its making me nervous...

 

I'd imagine LCE supplies decent tensioners in their kits. But I've seen cheap tensioners cause issues way to early.

 

I agree. Im not advocating for a cheap chain. However, when I bought my LCE chain kit, it was on OSK kit, in an OSK box. I see online right now other reputable shops selling OSK kits for 60 less than LCEs price. So there is a certain amount of branding and markup that we can avoid.

 

Agreed. And OSK a good brand

 

I purchased the single row, metal guide kit from LCE. That is what I installed.

 

it's what i've used, and it is made in japan, rather than china. and i used the osk plastic guides, not metal guides.

my newly installed osk chain broke because i forgot to tighten the guide bolts. one backed out and dropped down between the sprocket and chain, snapping the chain. my fault, but it sucked having just replaced the headgasket a week earlier (and the timing chain/sprocket/tensioner. got to do it all again, which went much faster, because i still remembered exactly what could be moved without taking it apart, and what needed to be taken apart. hope it's another 15 years before i need to do it again.

 

I used a Cloyes 94148SHD timing kit. Gears were made in USA, and the tensioner was made in Taiwan. No markings on the chain, so I don't know about it. Been installed 3 years and 4 months now, and it's still running fine.