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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeffksf B" data-source="post: 930328" data-attributes="member: 65145"><p>I would fix everything but the timing chains.  From the research I've done if you can live with the noise then your are not doing any real harm.  Many of these engines last many hundred of thousands of miles w/o ever changing the timing chain.  I'm at 120,000 miles and I'm gonna run it till it blows up.  I had a 2001 Ranger that I had the factory change them under warranty, they had the truck a month and had both heads rebilt because the factory tech miss timed the engine twice and bent the valves.  That tells me it's not any easy backyard mechanic type of job.  And if your gonna pull the motor out might as well drop a rebilt motor in that has no miles on it instread a high mileage motor with new timing chains.</p></blockquote><p></p>