broken timing chain oiler pin

[92 hbody]

Hey guys (Ben, let's see if your chilton has an answer for this one... ), I'm putting a new ka24e in my truck, bought it off craigslist for $400. When I pulled the oil pan off, there was a lot of rattling in the oil pan (*GULP*), and there was probably at least half of the old timing chain guides.... and the timing chain oiler pin. I looked in the nissan manual that's on our forum (which has become an absolute cructh and wealth of info:), and there's nowhere that I found that it actually mentions this part, other than in a flow chart diagram in the lubrication section.

I have an older ka24e that I got when I bought the truck (absolutely cooked block), and it has the oiling pin in tact...

a. How do I extract the oiler from the old block

b. How do I extract the oiler from the new block (easy out work?)

c. How do I install the oiler pin in the new motor

THANKS A TON!

[nissangirl74]

This is way above my pay grade but I dropped a link to this in our KA forum. They should be able to help you out. Good luck.

[sx moneypit]

You should be able to pull the old one out with a pair of pliers and tap the new one in using a small brass or plastic hammer.
You can get a new one here.
http://www.courtesyparts.com/11010h-jet ... _3180_3183&




-Ben

[92 hbody]

Well........... The pin was broken off, which is why I didn't just pry it out, it was amazingly broken off flush with the block, with zero chance of getting it out with normal methods. So down I went to the local western tool n supply for a fairly cheap, but extremely worthwhile straight fluted carbide drill bit, which I actually had luck with drilling until I got an easy out/aka extractor into it, and pulled it out (the long version is that I broke the extractor off in the broken oil pin before getting the carbide bit, then I used a diamond abrassive bit for my dremel to grind away some of the hardened extractor... of course not noticing that my new chain n guides were right there, needless to say I threw my new chain away n kept the guides, and while drilling for gold using my new carbide, into my broken pin n extractor, I managed to gouge a little bit of the oiler pin seat, although I hope not enough to make it shoot out of it's hole like a rocket...)

I then used a wooden hammer to tap the new pin into the hole, aiming my pin at the tensioner... Hope that was right... gulp...