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Dec 23, 2013 | 05:31 PM

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I'll probably take you up on that service manual, gotta wait til after Christmas thougg

Dec 23, 2013 | 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by r3v07ut10n

i am lucky as well, my buddy is a GM tech. $680 + 1 case of beer. Got a complete deluxe timing kit changed out, zfr installed and valve springs done. I helped him. It was that hard to do at all.

God that is a hell of a deal! I had friends like that before I got out of the army, not no more though

Dec 23, 2013 | 06:00 PM

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I'll probably take you up on that service manual, gotta wait til after Christmas thougg

Dec 23, 2013 | 09:10 PM

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That much for just the chain?! I called my dealer about the same thing and they quoted me the same price for everything. Guides and all.

Dec 23, 2013 | 10:20 PM

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You have to take most of the guides off and both tensioners anyways, so it's BS that they are saying it cost more to replace them

Dec 23, 2013 | 10:56 PM

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Yeah needless to say i yelled at the parts guy

Dec 24, 2013 | 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by 05RLS2

If you don't feel comfortable, then by all means take it somewhere. Doing timing chain replacements isn't hard, but just time consuming to make sure everything is correct. I have done them before, but never on an LSJ. Since there isn't a side timing cover on the LSJ engines, I dread ever having to do one. I doesn't look like there is much room to see what you are doing with the engine in the car

Plenty of room to work.

Our cars have to be one of the easiest cars to work on. No joke.