# 88 Toyota Pickup engine noise

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/88-toyota-pickup-engine-noise/15749>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/88-toyota-pickup-engine-noise/15749 "2008-06-23T22:10:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![GEOFFL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@GEOFFL](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GEOFFL)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/88-toyota-pickup-engine-noise/15749/1 "2008-06-23T22:10:21Z")

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What should the owner do?

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**Author:** ![GEOFFL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@GEOFFL](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GEOFFL)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/88-toyota-pickup-engine-noise/15749/2 "2008-06-23T22:17:38Z")

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Regardless of whether Tom & Ray are right, I can’t suggest strongly enough that a 20-year-old 22R engine have the valve cover removed and a good hard look into the timing chain area. If the driver’s side chain guide is broken, it’s just a matter of time before the chain will rub a hole in the back of the water pump housing on the timing cover, just as if it were a chainsaw. The result is engine oil becoming brown mayonnaise (just like a head gasket failure), the coolant that did this starting serious corrosion on the innards of the engine, and the customer having to fork over relatively serious bucks for a new timing cover, on top of all the timing chain stuff.