Toyota timing chain

rokntoy

rokntoy

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I’ve been told to use only Toyota timing chains! Has anyone ever used a different after market chain and had issues with it?
 
Used all the eBay specials. Never had an issue out of the chain but never kept off the rev limiter long enough to have a 22r/22re last long enough to find the breaking point lol.
The ‘89 I’m currently driving has one in it and the biggest upgrade was making sure it had the metal guides not the oem plastic crap. Send it.
 
eBay here as well. Came in a "kit" with water pump, oil pump, guides, etc. Been on mine for 4ish years.

Biggest thing to look for is like @skyhighZJ said and get metal backed chain guides
 
I used the cheapest timing kit, pistons, rings, and everything else I could get for my daily driver 95 pickup, it made it 101K miles and the tensioner gave up the ghost. I bought everything from Engine Builder at the time, around 2011. It burnt oil from day #1, but I got 7 good years out of it driving it to work. When the tensioner let go it lost time and bent some valves. I could argue that I got my moneys worth out of it, but it still sucked having to redo it. At this point the engine is worth more than the truck its sitting in.

I rebuilt it again, this time with better parts, including an OEM tensioner. I have about 5k on it now since I don't drive it everyday.
 
I used all engine builder stuff on my 87. It's seen 6 yrs and ~20k without issue.
 
I have used both the Enginbldr kit (4runner) and eBay whatever set (93 pu) and seen no difference.
I imagine you'd have to go long and hard to expose any manufacturing differences om something like that.
 
Tensioner and guides are the weak link. I doubt any particular chain would give problems. Get steel backed guides and I prefer a Japan made tensioner. Last kit I bought came from JT outfitters but don’t recall the brand.

I know guys that have used tensioners from Advance or Autozone and had to replace them again within 20k miles. It’s too much work to risk it in my opinion. Especially for the minimal cost difference.

Just my .02
 
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