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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:07:29 -0000
From: David Taylor <djtaylornospamoot.com>
Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A_Should_I_buy_this_1992_9000_T?=   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?urbo_with_168=2C000_miles_on_it_for_=A3600?=


> Everything breaks - it's just that there are many, many things which are > more likely to break. I know, I was just picking up on your "they never ever ever break" comment. If I felt that, I wouldn't be thinking about changing them on my car. :) > The real question is why did it stretch this much? Unless you car has > 300k miles on it, there is something wrong. The usual problem is poor > oil pressure/flow to the tensioner and the chain itself. Dunno, car was at 120k miles, I bought it at 112k. Some past history but of course I don't know the full story. Oddly, I never thought the chain was that noisey. At least it wasn't compared to my bag of nails that attempts to be a chain in my Aero. > I think if I had a chain that was stretched beyond the tensioner's max > extension, I'd change it. But I'd want to dig a little to find out how > it got like that. Yes and I came across an article the other day on sticking a ruler down through the cam cover to the guide to measure the chain stretch. David.

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