REPLACING TIMING CHAIN GUIDE RAILS

[m5james]

I'd double check now before ever starting the car again, it can be costly if you decide to start cutting corners now.

JK's list is pretty extensive, but as he said, you're going to be it there doing some major open heart surgery...do you really want to skimp on $20 here and $30 there with what's happened? I can't make you replace more than what is needed, but at the same time, IMHO it'd be foolish not to.

Valley pan refers to the area sitting inside the V of the engine, underneath the intake manifold. I preach to people all the time that 80-100k is the time to replace EVERY single piece of the cooling system...radiator, hoses, thermostat, water pump, valley pan gasket, hoses, etc You're going to be taking off a TON of things as is, so no better time than now to refresh all the auxiliary components that bolt onto the engine as well.

You're way past bare bones brotha...do you really wanna take short cuts now? I HIGHLY doubt you're going to be getting away with replacing only the guides, but then again, even if you do, you've got a bunch of things that I'd be replacing while you're in there that knuckle deep anyways. Yeah, I thing you're wrong to expect to get away with a few hundred dollar repair.