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Timing chain wore through upper oil pan!
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11-24-2004, 03:03 PM
Old300D
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It does sound like you had a bad tensioner. A MB chain should last the life of the engine, or at least 200k miles. The chain rubbing on the upper pan sounds loose to me.
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