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Old 12-08-2005, 05:21 PM
elaine@fowler35 elaine@fowler35 is offline
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Originally Posted by samiam4
You can measure timing chain stretch!

Pull the valve cover and inspect things while doing a tune-up. It's the V8's which seem to need timing chains regularly @ 100k or so. Diesels have shorter chains which adds up to less stretch.

Don't know a thing about a 307D!!!

Michael

Thank You! I will get Mercedes to check the chain for stretch, don't know why they didn't tell me that they could check the chain in this way, as you can see I have little mechanical knowledge.
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