Just did my timing chain guide, found something interesting..

[climhazzard85]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well, my freind and I just took the guide out. Process went relatively smoothly, except for me dropping a bit of old sealant in the engine, oh well. My engine has around 100k on it, and this is the first time I've pulled the valve cover. The inside of the engine looks amazing, like new. Anyway..

I was looking at the guide, and realised it is made of metal...not the plastic that everyone complains about. There is plastic, but it's only the part the chain runs over, is that what everyone has a problem with? I don't see how that would snap off and fall into your engine.

Anyway here is a pic, is this the factory guide? Also, ignore the bubbles, that's just water from me cleaning it off.

[InsanityInc]

Yeah, that's the problematic one. It's impressive that yours isn't broken.

[climhazzard85]

How can it break, most of it is metal? And yeah, the wear isn't that bad on it I don't think...engine only has 100k on it.

[InsanityInc]

How can it break, most of it is metal? And yeah, the wear isn't that bad on it I don't think...engine only has 100k on it.

Hell if I know. Mine was snapped in half, and the top part was riding on the chain. It was quite munched up when I took it out.

[climhazzard85]

Haha that's crazy, at least it didn't drop into the oil pan.

[Florida240sx]

I'll post some pics tomorrow of mine.

[nismojunkie]

i took the guide out of mine a couple days ago and it had just enough wear so that you could see where the chain had been hittin it. and it has 174k miles.

[ArticDragon192]

Well, here's the way I see it. It's hot in there. A chain travelling very fast is rubbing up against it. You try sticking to metal on a chain travelling at those speeds and see what happens.

[Dmnitsadean]

same prob here fixed that situation...wen the owner I bought it from "friend" he was racing my 240 stock...."before I bought the car" well yeah wen he sold it to me he figured he blew his head.....than so he resurfaced his head an put new head gasket from then own...........He was juss driving it and engine was running to rich....wen I bought the car from him...I open the valve cover and figured that he lost both tensioners...wen I opened it it was both cracked in half.....and the stock tensioner that came with the car was plastic....it wasnt metal....wen I bought the tensioners from auto zone they came metal....brought it fro 30 bucks altogether....Fixed that deal...now its juss my clutch....this owner that I brought it from didn't work well with stick so he was juss fukin around with it....brought the car for 900 altogther to fix it up and make it run again and make it look good i guess ima run it about 2000 all together...so im alright...this KA24E has 135K its still alright thanx for reading....Dean
Modified by Dmnitsadean at 8:25 PM 7/3/2005