Moremoney

it took us a day...$600 bucks...worth every penny..replaced phasers but it was the chains that were slappin' like I owed them money

redfishtd

Including phasors . They were awful dirty from 160 k . The last thing I did before I opened her up was an engine flush . That made the phasors really act up . I read and re read everything about this front end change out and made notes of all the torques and Ideas .
Do make a cardboard story board for all the bolts coming off, Tape them in there and put torques and sequences right on there . It is better than pictures . I took a couple of weeks to do mine at my leisure .
Draw the assembly with a felt marker and poke those bolts right on there , wire the nuts there too.
You can't remember all that stuff ,this makes it easy . Had to make my own crank pulley holder for removal and 3 step re-torque . Mark pulley and new cam phasor bolts for proper torquing . Make sure you use black ultra rtv on the heads and chain cover in those areas where there is a metal seam . .
Got my new melling 360 oil pump from amazon --around 100 bucks .
This job would be costly for a paid mechanic. Most have never done one of these . They are a pain . They want to sell you a 7k jasper engine . You can do this for around 1200 to 1400 oem .