Did some driving last night to get some break in miles. I'm ~160 miles in.

Stoped at a light, a hooptie pulls up next to me, and is making a very noticeable metal on metal chirping. Light goes green,  he pulls away, and the noise persists. FUCK!

Pull into a parking lot. Oil pressure good, running fine. Pop hood and there is a distinct metal on metal touching noise. I can clearly hear its external to the motor and assume its from something in the accessory chain, so I roll the dice and drive back home.

Pull serpentine belt off, noise persists.
Pull front pulley off, noise presists but different now.
Pull off timing covers and what do we have!

My fucking timing idler pulley decided it actually wants to be a hole saw.





Looks like the actual roller sleeve slipped forward on the bearing and went to town.

Thankful i caught it before any timing incidents could occur, and at least its into my covers it cut and not my block.

Anyone ever seen anything like this? I thought maybe I installed it incorrectly, but it was never present until yesterday. Also, you cant install that bearing wrong because its indexed. So what to do now.

ECS will just replace the failed part.

I ordered a new tensioner, relay arm, tensioner bearing and idler bearing because im paranoid and some how new parts have less chance of failure? sigh

gonna go try to pull some timing covers today.

Found an EUU diff car local cross checked VIN and ratio is 37:9. should be good there now no more chirp and semi tractor turn radius!

~600 miles in.

Slave cylinder leaking.

hmm i under estimated how difficult getting waste gate springs in is.

adaptation( idle ) bank 1 sensor 1:-1.7%
adaptation(partial) bank 1 sensor 1:14.1%

adaptation( idle ) bank 2 sensor 1:-0.8%
adaptation(partial) bank 2 sensor 1:6.3%

 Banks are out.

I have:
-pressure tested
-smoke tested
-replaced bank 2 02 sensor
-swapped injectors from bank to bank


I need:
More input or thoughts on what to look for. Anything is appreciated.

If you have no unmetered air, most probably it will fuel suply, either fpr filter pump....