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Message started by ncron1103 on 07/04/11 at 10:19:48

Title: removing a link out of timing chain
Post by ncron1103 on 07/04/11 at 10:19:48

So as some of you know my timing chain tensioner went out a couple weeks ago. I got to thinking about this today what if when i bought a tensioner if i just took a link out of my chain. The tensioner wouldn't have enough slack to come out then. Just let me know on your thoughts. my be another solution to the tensioner coming apart.

Title: Re: removing a link out of timing chain
Post by MotoBuddha on 07/04/11 at 10:38:55

The trick would be putting it back together -- so it would stay together. It's not like there's a master link you can buy like you can on a drive chain. Besides, you can't shorten a chain just one link. One link has plates on the outside, the next on the inside, then on the outside and so on. So you need to remove two links, which would be too short.

$98 seems like a lot to spend on a new chain, but it beats the cost of repairing the damage that would happen if your homemade shortened chain let go.

Title: Re: removing a link out of timing chain
Post by Oldfeller on 07/04/11 at 16:53:57

Won't work, chain is WAY too short if a link is taken out. Did you really think we didn't investigate that path?

Have you looked at the construction of the chain? It isn't like a drive chain at all -- it is a Borg Warner Hy Vo silent drive chain that runs on gear forms instead of sprockets.

Title: Re: removing a link out of timing chain
Post by Routy on 07/05/11 at 06:35:54

I believe from one outside plate to the next one is "one" link.
For a normal drive chain, if removing one link is too short, then you must remove "one" link, and add a "1/2" link, commonly called an "offset" link. Just so you know.

64465D466B5C4D4D4148290 wrote:

Besides, you can't shorten a chain just one link. One link has plates on the outside, the next on the inside, then on the outside and so on. So you need to remove two links, which would be too short.

Title: Re: removing a link out of timing chain
Post by BurnPgh on 07/05/11 at 14:44:07

$98 is too much. We need to start back up where Lancer left off and source ourselves some better quality or at least more cost effective hy-vo chains. The wickers among us may only be getting a year and a half or 2 years out of a brand new chain. Got a new one last year at about 19k mi. Im at about 25 and some change now and im ready to move it the the extended hole in the verslavy already. I will need a new one if not by the end of next season, then the very beginning of the one following it.