I did my timing chain and water pump when I did mine, figured since I was there already might as well. Also you might want to upgrade to the Felpro gaskets on your Hughes kit, it's abit more but worth it imo

 

Okay I will consider those gaskets.

For pulling timing chain, I need a special tool to pull the harmonic balancer correct? Do I need anything special to pull the water pump? I've never disconnected the accessory belt so I'm not familar.

Thanks,

 

If it's leaking, do the water pump, timing chain/gears, and cover gasket. It's only a few more bolts to get there, and if you ignore it, you will get the opportunity to re-do a bunch of work.

The stock chain is a morse-syle, stamped link chain. No rollers. It is VERY prone to stretching, and since you have over 100K on the truck, you will find a good deal of slop. Get a good double roller timing set. You won't be sorry.

 

i second that. heyyou told me to the same thing. make her real happy.

 

For the harmonic balancer I just rented a puller set from Autozone, nothing special needed for water pump. And another vote for the double-roller timing chain, I got a Comp Cams one from Amazon it was only $45

 

No rollers? Christ man. Ok. Don't want to redo work. Will I have to get a timing light and that jazz after pulling and replacing the timing components? OEM waterpump unit recommended?

yessir

got it. Will look for that chain.



Well my shopping cart is going to have to grow a bit from what it was. Will update and try to throw some install pictures up once I get to it.

 

Sounds like a plan, we LOVE pics.

 

No timing light needed, pcm controls that, moving the distributor sets fuel sync not timing. OEM waterpump is what I used.

 

No timing light needed, Just line up the marks on the gears. I have had some bad luck with water pumps. Got a brand new(not reman) pump from Bosch. It lasted the longest so far. 5 years to the day almost the bearings where growling and had to get a replacement(it was not leaking though). It was free because i got the lifetime warranty but still it's a pain redoing the same job over again. I am tempted the get an oem piece if this one craps out in another four years time.

 

totally knew that.....