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Old August 23rd, 2022 | 4:37 PM
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Hi! I'm having trouble with my friends car. It has little to no power. So this started when they were driving down the road they heard a pop and then the car had no power and wouldn't start back up. Now I pulled the valve cover and sure enough the timing chain guide was broke and the top bolt was gone. (Later found wedge in the bottom)
I set cylinder 1 to TDC and replaced the chain following the timing marks and aligning the colored chain links with the marks on the 2 cam phasers.
The car runs exactly as it did before I didn't the chain. I did a compression check on the engine and I got 50ish psi across the board.
Did I do something wrong in the timing or is something else damaged? I just thought it was odd that all 4 cylinders are the the same low compression. I'm not too familiar with the 2.4 vvt I've had some non vvt 2.2 with similar timing chain issues. But everything I've done one of those it has been fine. Is it something to do with the phasers that could cause this? They don't have much money and I'm just trying to help them out. Any help is appreciated!

Pieces of the old timing slides and bolts
Old August 24th, 2022 | 7:49 AM
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Hi! I'm having trouble with my friends car. It has little to no power. So this started when they were driving down the road they heard a pop and then the car had no power and wouldn't start back up. Now I pulled the valve cover and sure enough the timing chain guide was broke and the top bolt was gone. (Later found wedge in the bottom)
I set cylinder 1 to TDC and replaced the chain following the timing marks and aligning the colored chain links with the marks on the 2 cam phasers.
The car runs exactly as it did before I didn't the chain. I did a compression check on the engine and I got 50ish psi across the board.
Did I do something wrong in the timing or is something else damaged? I just thought it was odd that all 4 cylinders are the the same low compression. I'm not too familiar with the 2.4 vvt I've had some non vvt 2.2 with similar timing chain issues. But everything I've done one of those it has been fine. Is it something to do with the phasers that could cause this? They don't have much money and I'm just trying to help them out. Any help is appreciated!

Pieces of the old timing slides and bolts
I should add that it struggles at the low rpms but revs in the higher rpm smooth, like there was nothing wrong.
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