Running lean plus slight oil leak...pointers? (journal hehe)

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Feb 28, 2005 | 07:01 AM

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wikd240

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From: knoxville tn

it is on the vin plate either on the door sill or the one under the hood... either place will give month and year of man...

May 14, 2005 | 01:13 AM

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CowboyTurbo

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From: MA

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Originally posted by wikd240
when you removed the cover did you notice if the front timing chain guide is still installed??? if it is remove it... as well as the lower on on the upper timing chain... there will be a little play in the chain it is not enough to harm anything... there is a guide on how to remove the upper guides and exactly how to do it... for the front timing chain cover leaking the only way to repair that is to remove the oil pan to get the front cover off... that is why there was so much of a charge to do it... in most cases the motor is pulled out to remove the oil pan... i can pull my motor in 4 hours... but i have had it out a time or 4... and have the whole thing ripped down to bare block in a lil over 6 hours... so it all depends on how much skill you have in fixing the timing chain cover leak...

umm... my ka24de is having the same oil leak, wikd240 said that the oil pan has to come off to take the front cover off~ which means pulling the engine or dropping the suspension, rite? Can anybody else verify this? Is there anyway I can just pull out the radiator and the stuff in front of the front cover to pull it off and replace the gaskets?