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Originally Posted by chato de shamrock
Wait, so driving without the timing guides is bad? I also have to open up my engine to take care of these and have been reading up on it. Until your comment I've only read they should be removed and left out. Even read a comment or two that the Nissan shop workers advise they are useless and you should just remove them when the rattling starts.
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We're talking about different guides. It is perfectly fine and recommended to remove the upper guide on the early DE motors. The guide that the OP is speaking of is the main guide that along the chain from the block to the head. The main guide is fairly important and should not be removed. Nissan had issues with the plastic guide breaking changed the design to include a metal backing sometime in the mid to late 90s (I forget the exact date of the change over). Nissan even issued a service bulletin about this for the SOHC motors but never did a recall, instead they called it "recommended service".