About To Replace Everythanggg On Front of Motor. Any tips or tricks? (2 Viewers)

[Boston Mangler]

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[Boston Mangler]

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[bloc]

How many miles on the old hardware? What was condition of idler, tensioner, and especially fan bearing bracket?

 

[Boston Mangler]

How many miles on the old hardware? What was condition of idler, tensioner, and especially fan bearing bracket?

Calm down sir, still at it, full report coming

 

[Boston Mangler]

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[linuxgod]

The front of your engine looks super clean for 220k. I’m about to hit 170k and mine looks like someone painted it with a quart of oil and a 5# bag of dirt. I was going to suggest checking the timing chain cover/seal and consider replacing if it’s leaking but yours looks fine. Congrats

 

[kcjaz]

I'm late to your party. Here is my 150K PM thread that was essentially all the things you're doing. At this point, probably not much help.

150K mile PM

So I'm at 150K miles on my 2013 200. I'm the second owner and bought it in 2015 with about 40K miles. I've done all of the recommended maintenance stuff and before I owned it, it was dealer maintained but am wondering if it would be worth it to replace the water pump, hoses and belts just to...

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Did you find anything wrong with your PS pump? I replaced mine but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. You can get rebuild kits for them too if you wanted to take the time. Since I had already bought the new one, I put it in and now have a spare that I'll likely never use.

 

[KLF]

The front of your engine looks super clean for 220k. I’m about to hit 170k and mine looks like someone painted it with a quart of oil and a 5# bag of dirt. I was going to suggest checking the timing chain cover/seal and consider replacing if it’s leaking but yours looks fine. Congrats

I'm at about 1/2 of Kevin's mileage, and I'm pretty fussy about keeping my engine bay clean, but I know his is cleaner than mine down low. I do know my timing chain cover is leaking just a tiny bit, wet but not dripping, so that's a big contributor.

 

[linuxgod]

I'm at about 1/2 of Kevin's mileage, and I'm pretty fussy about keeping my engine bay clean, but I know his is cleaner than mine down low. I do know my timing chain cover is leaking just a tiny bit, wet but not dripping, so that's a big contributor.

Mine is getting worse. Sadly I expect somewhere over 200k I’m going to have to address it. For the first time I noticed my oil is down a little bit, maybe 4-6oz per 4k miles, when I check the dipstick. And having had my skid off recently there’s definitely a lot more oil down low than there used to be. Not a huge deal to keep things topped off, but i know it’ll only get worse

 

[xeuxaz]

Thanks for taking the time to document this, including pictures.

 

[Boston Mangler]

I'm at about 1/2 of Kevin's mileage, and I'm pretty fussy about keeping my engine bay clean, but I know his is cleaner than mine down low. I do know my timing chain cover is leaking just a tiny bit, wet but not dripping, so that's a big contributor.

I remember when I first met ya 25 or so years ago, literally the first impression was “dayum this guy keeps his stuff minty clean”

Glad ya haven’t changed

 

[Boston Mangler]

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The UPPER portion of my motor is spotless, as is the valley plate area. Zero drips

But…

When I was fussing with the hard line on the drivers side, right near the AC compressor. I noticed There’s a decent amount of crud build up in that area. Not wet persay, but something oily is seaping over there. Haven’t started to investigate what yet, and no leaks in driveway at all, but something is amiss there.

 

[bloc]

Most likely the timing chain cover leaning near the top drivers side where it seals against the block. Many of us have this.. pretty sure that is @linuxgod issue. Mine doesn’t hit the ground if I degrease it every oil change. It was mildly present when I got the rig 100k+ ago, and has gotten worse, but not a lot.

 

[Boston Mangler]

Most likely the timing chain cover leaning near the top drivers side where it seals against the block. Many of us have this.. pretty sure that is @linuxgod issue. Mine doesn’t hit the ground if I degrease it every oil change. It was mildly present when I got the rig 100k+ ago, and has gotten worse, but not a lot.

Thank you. I will start researching it

 

[linuxgod]

Most likely the timing chain cover leaning near the top drivers side where it seals against the block. Many of us have this.. pretty sure that is @linuxgod issue. Mine doesn’t hit the ground if I degrease it every oil change. It was mildly present when I got the rig 100k+ ago, and has gotten worse, but not a lot.

once every year or two I’ll hit mine with some degreaser, just to gauge how bad it is. The upper part is dirty but not awful. The bottom front of the engine is a mess I’m embarassed to say. A couple shops wanted ~$3500 for the job so I’m ignoring it until I’m losing more than a quart every oil change, which hopefully is a loooong time from now. I’ll do the chain tensioners at that point too. Hopefully I don’t suffer the rare but dreaded head gasket issue but it’s definitely a reason not to bother with this repair until absolutely necessary because if that does happen the seal is getting replaced anyway

 

[Boston Mangler]

Did you find anything wrong with your PS pump? I replaced mine but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. You can get rebuild kits for them too if you wanted to take the time. Since I had already bought the new one, I put it in and now have a spare that I'll likely never use.

There was some noise in the bearing when off the truck and spun freely. Minor, but it was there. Put 2 side by side, and the new one was definitely tighter and smoother, but nothing extreme.

My steering was loud before replacing the pump. Now it is silent, and smoother and firmer. The fluid likely played part of this as well, as i didnt bother flushing it since i knew i was taking it all apart, and i honestly have no idea how it old was or when it was last changed/flushed