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Surprise: My LH inner guide is broken. Fortunately, it's broken on the side AWAY from the timing gear. Beacuse the common catastrophe is to have the other side break and ride up under the gear, causing a jump (And often a broken cam cover), I suppose that this was...uhhh..."lucky", if you can call it that. Man, did I dodge a bullet. I couldn't find a store today when I went out and didn't stop. I'm not sure how many successful starts I had left.
Now, I am NEVER going to do this again, and am considering getting a METAL replacement for this. But...
Why did MB go to plastic? Noise? Cost? Bits of metal in the oil from wear?
Wouldn't a very loose timing chain maybe catch a metal guide and instead of breaking, cause an automatic calamity (instead of what happened here)?
Any opinions?
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