I recently opened my engine and found my timing chainset destroyed. The chain ate over have the tensioner arm and left alot of debrit both plastic and aluminum. My oil pressure was fine before my teardown and intend to clean my oil pick-up screen. my question is while this is apart should I replace my Oil Pump or is this a pretty durrable part?

 

My timing chain through the arm. All the black stuff is oil mixed with plastic and aluminum.

 

as long as you got that far apart....my gut says to put a new one in.

 

id say get a new one too then flush the engine to be on the safe side

 

What do you recomend flushing with? I had a Z-28 once (I know I know I shouldnt talk about that company lol) and I ran seafoam through the engine the very next day I spun a main bearing in it and that was pretty much the end of that car for me as I had no $ for a rebuild at the time. I could have had a bad experience/ luck with that happening the day after but I was always a little enervous to use it again.

 

ive never heard of seafoam doin that but if your nervous about useing it again talk to a couple of your local shops and see what they recommend id do the flush to be sure all of that ground up gunk was out of the system to be safe it would be a big pita to do all that work and some left over junk fryed the motor

 

I agree 100% i think seafoams safe, I got to use something and I know that stuff is what everyone uses so I got to keep the faith lol.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

no problem i would use seafoam i havent found anything better