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Originally Posted by BDBENZ
Something bothers me about this, I replaced my chain and rails on my 87 as maintenance because of time. I did not want to risk the rails braking because of age. My chain stretch was 8 degrees and afterwords when all lined back up the timing mark was dead on 0. Are you sure you have the tensioner mounted correctly? When I installed mine I remember it being difficult to remount because of the tension it applied to the new chain. Before I started the car I rolled the engine over two times with the crank and rechecked my marks. I wood go back to the manual and recheck the tensioner procedure.
bdbenz
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I think this is good advice.
I had a local shop install my chain. But they ordered the wrong tensioner, so just put the old one back. Next day I noticed some noise, but drove car a bit. then following day there was loud clanging. Opened engine and found passenger side marks off by about 8deg with new chain.
I ordered a new tensioner and installed it myself. Rotated engine a few times and checked - marks now within 1 or deg. Car has run fine since.
PS: I was told that new tensioner would not change timing marks, but it did.
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Graham
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