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Honda K24A Rear Timing Chain Guide - Genuine OEM (14520-RAA-A01)
Tearing into the timing on your K24 to chase a rattle or knock out a chain job? Don't put it back together without fresh guides, and this is one of them. Honda 14520-RAA-A01 is the genuine rear timing chain guide, the piece the chain rides against to keep it from slapping around as it spins between your crank and cams. It's plastic riding on a moving chain in a hot, oily engine for years, so it wears, it glazes, and eventually it cracks, and a cracked guide lets the chain go loose and noisy. Since you've already got the cover off, this is exactly the part you want to drop in new.
What This Guide Does And Why It Wears Out
Your K24 runs a timing chain instead of a belt, which is great, no belt interval hanging over your head, but that chain still needs guides to keep it tracking straight and quiet. This is the rear one, and its whole job is giving the chain a smooth surface to run against so it can't whip or slap. Here's the catch people forget: it's a plastic part living right up against a steel chain that never stops moving, soaking in heat and oil the entire time. That's a rough life. Over enough miles the surface glazes, wears a groove, and gets brittle enough to crack, and once it does, the chain picks up slack and you start hearing it. That rattle a lot of folks chase on a high-mile K24? A worn guide is often exactly what's behind it.
Do The Whole Timing Job At Once
Here's where you save yourself a second teardown. This guide doesn't work alone, it lives in there with the chain, the other guides, and the tensioner, and they all wear on roughly the same clock. Putting one fresh guide back in next to a stretched chain and a tired tensioner is half a job, because the worn stuff just chews up your new part. The labor to get in here is the whole expense, so while you've got it open, do the chain, all the guides, and the tensioner together. Knock it out in one shot and you're not pulling this cover back off next year over a part you looked right at and left alone.
Genuine Honda, Because A Cracked Guide Is A Big Problem
Don't gamble on a cheap guide here. This little plastic piece is part of what keeps your timing chain under control, and if a bargain guide cracks early and lets that chain go slack, you're not looking at a rattle anymore, you're looking at the chain skipping and your valves and pistons meeting. This is the genuine Honda guide, made from the right material and shaped to the exact profile your timing set needs, so it holds up to the heat and the miles the way it's supposed to. When the part's a few bucks and the labor's a whole afternoon, you run the one you can trust.
What You Get
- Genuine Honda rear timing chain guide (14520-RAA-A01)
- Guides the timing chain on K24 engines
- Direct OEM replacement, correct material and profile
- Best replaced with the timing chain, other guides, and tensioner
- Sold individually
Fits These Cars
- 2004-2008 Acura TSX (K24A2)
- 2002-2006 Honda CR-V (K24A1)
- 2003-2007 Honda Accord (K24A4)
- 2003-2011 Honda Element (K24A4/K24A8)
Note: Genuine Honda rear timing chain guide, part number 14520-RAA-A01, for the K24A1, K24A2, K24A4, and K24A8 engines. Provides a wear surface that keeps the timing chain tracking straight and quiet. A worn or cracked guide can let the chain go slack, causing noise and, if neglected, skipped timing and engine damage. Best replaced together with the timing chain, the other guides, and the tensioner while the timing cover is off. Sold individually. Fits the 2004-2008 Acura TSX, 2002-2006 Honda CR-V, 2003-2007 Honda Accord, and 2003-2011 Honda Element. One guide per order.