For the ones wondering. Here is what 139,970.6 miles of hard driving does to a timing chain on a 1993 2.8l Engine.


For ones not understanding. This should not move. And this pic shows bad.


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To say the least, my camaro with 177,7xx.x miles will be getting one REAL soon after seeing this!!!

well thats next on the list for my bird then ... shes got 132xxx on her ... that strectched out a lot for that many miles

im so happy i rooled over to 190 thousand today..origonal motor he eh he he ehe ehe :lala: :lala:

Thats about what mine looked like when I rebuilt the motor. It had 168,xxx miles on it and boy was it hot rodded to hell and back. Everything else in that motor is brand new because everything else was either worn out, or a crank shaft that almost broke in half.

i've seen alot of engines like that 60k, 90k 40k...timing chains just kinda go like that, doesn't really matter unless it breaks

Can we see pics of the new chain mounted???

Hehe... Believe it or not that's nothing compared to the chain I took out of my firebird at 155k... there was a good 3 inches of travel... it was doing the death rattle against the timing chain cover... I got lucky that I caught that before it snapped.

Sorry Ryan, I'm striping this engine down for parts, and just when I seen that. I might have a pic of my new engine, and timing chain. Would have to look though.

According to repair manuals, anything of .25" of travel like that, it needs replaced. I do belive that is in need of replacement. ( I just replace engine instead hehe)

I agree, just curious. Do you plan to order the one that summit has for our engines?

I wonder if I took any pictures of my chain install... I've got so many damn rolls of undeveloped film laying around my room! Just got a Mustek DV3000 digital camera; should come in handy for this summer!

WOW, with the original 200K on mine, and knowing that the guy who owned it before me didn't take that great of care of the motor, I think mine's gonna get changed next month.

Ryan, on my new engine (installed in s10), I did install a cloyes double roller.

When I go to do the camaro engine, I will install basic chain from local parts stores. I don't intend on it getting abused beyond basic driving. Save me about 40-60 bux.

Payday needs to hurry up!!!

I would love to see what mine looks like i ahve 220,000 miles on my enigne and still going strong doing a major tuneup right now.

40-60? jegs is selling double rollers for like $30

I would love to see a true double roller for this engine for 30 bux. Only one I have seen was a bill.

Should have seen mine. it was slapping the timing cover so bad that it left hair line facture in the timing cover. I thought the noise was comming from my lifters. OOPPPSS!

I would like to see gears for ours so it has that blower whine to it.

Heck yeah, the gear drives are awesome...

I was looking for some of them, no luck I was told they actually take 1-2 hp away from engine, but are by far more stronger.

A guy came into my work with a gear drive on his truck i was all what kind of blower do you have it had that whine to it he said oh i just have gears. Since then i want a set. Is it true you cant use them with a hydrolic cam and hydrolic lifters????

Not sure of what cams in can/cant be used on, never got that far. I don't see why you couldn't use it on any cam

The also make a set that is "nosie" or "silent". He must of had the nosie ones.