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Re: have you changed to cover pad
Posted by JohnK (more from JohnK) on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:17:14
In Reply to: Timing Chain or Tensioner... how do you know?, thereuare, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:42:08
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The first thing I would do is pull the valve cover and inspect the damper pad in the valve cover. If the surface is not soft, you'll get noise. While you have the cover off, you can inspect the chain. Set engine to top dead center and check that the cam marks line up. Note that TDC occurs every other engine revolution. Roll car on flat surface in 5th gear to get TDC lined up at flywheel inspection port in plastic clutch cover.
If the sprocket marks line up, that means that the tensioner is still within its range. Carefully inspect chain for wear and stretched links. If the sprocket marks do not line up, then the chain is worn. the only problem with the master link roll-in approach is if the chain is really bad there is a good chance that the lower sprocket is worn. If so, a new chain will get beat up. To get to this, the front engine cover has to come off...not easy with engine in car, but pros do it.
The pad will probably fix the noise if you're lucky.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Timing Chain or Tensioner... how do you know?, thereuare, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:42:08
- Re: have you changed to cover pad, JohnK, Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:17:14 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Timing Chain or Tensioner... how do you know?, Bill U, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:42:40
- Re: Timing Chain or Tensioner... how do you know?, KeithG, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:19:00
- Re: Timing Chain or Tensioner... how do you know?, Glen, Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:07:50
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