Originally Posted by ah-kay

I jury rigged a spring to fix the oil chain guide. I really do not want to open up the front cover so I installed a spring to 'pull' the guide rail towards the chain. I drilled a hole in the guide rail and a hole in the front cover support and mounted a spring there. It seems to be doing its job but the proof is in the pudding when I fire up the engine. Here is a couple of pictures. Wish me luck.

btw: The spring is not broken. I do not think it was dislodged when I removed the oil pump. I think it has been like that for a while. The front cover, I suspect, was removed at one time and the guide was not installed properly. The reason I made this assumption is that there should be a metal 'cage' behind the vacuum pump, held by 3 bolts, but it was missing.