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Message started by retired on 10/13/09 at 12:32:12

Title: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by retired on 10/13/09 at 12:32:12

two weeks ago I picked up a 1987 ls650, it had been taken half apart for cleaning and painting back in 1990 one thing lead to another and it never got done. Been under cover in the corner of a barn for 20 years. looks nice.Cant start it yet. However Upon checking the chain tensioner it was at .859 Almost out. My Question is I found a old post on this forum from,Aeres Dated 12-31-69 describing how he bent the rear tensioner guide allowing it to take up more slack in the chain and the plunger ratcheted out to only 10mm. he stated that 2/3 of the plunger rack was still in the tensioner body due to this bend. I can not find a post as to how this held up, worked out. Does anyone Know? Looking to save a little money. Thanks

Title: Re: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by BurnPgh on 10/13/09 at 12:43:05

gunna have to remove the head to remove the tensioner.

Title: Re: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/13/09 at 12:54:49

Time for a chain. At least.

Title: Re: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by serenity3743 on 10/13/09 at 13:24:40

Has this forum been around since 1969? :-?

Title: Re: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by srinath on 10/13/09 at 13:33:05

Yea, something like date 0 in unix is sometime in 1970, and there was one Idiot @ my previous work (Lowes home improvement) who set a server to date 0 ~3 days before memorial day.
Nice, everyone who opened a project for the 3 days till it was caught lost everythign when we pitched the "old" ones every night.
Lucky for those F^&kers I caught it - aka, not my job, but you're freaking environment is toast, oh look at that time, 5 pm. Bye suckers.
Then the peckerheads laid me off the a$$holes.
Cool.
Srinath.

Title: Re: timing chain tensioner guide
Post by verslagen1 on 10/13/09 at 13:44:32

I don't know about '69, but I know we discussed it a couple of years ago.
Take a look at the cam chain adjuster check in the tect section. I link it in after a bit.

Now, my reccommodation... not with that old one. Maybe to test before really doing it, but I wouldn't leave it in there. There's a chance all that old plastic will strip off. The old ones that I've got, the plastic is all cracked. And normally, that section of the plastic doesn't wear at all. So when you bend it there will be wear like what's on the curved section. Not that I think that's a problem. There's just no way to inspect the sump for floating bits of black plastic.