[dsmreck]

I pulled the oil pan today and everything is perfect, so what a huge relief, but what was making noise and why is the timing belt being chewed up? well the next step was taking the cover off to find out. Bingo…the timing cover was almost cut in half by the timing belt. So i grabbed the belt and it honestly felt like i could just pull it off it was so slack. the tensioner is shot. I can't believe how lucky i am to catch this before it trashed the motor. I will order a new tensioner and i guess i may have to bit the bullet on a new timing cover unless i find a good used one soon.