If it ratchet's that means that when I push the plunger in the plunger should stay in, correct?
When I remove the tensioner and push the plunger in by hand in it does not stay in, it pops right back out to fully extended.
I tried removing the cap on the end of the tensioner and it is stuck on there good, I'd need to mount it in a vice and put a breaker bar to it so I decided not to remove the cap.
The noise now is a squeak and I can hear it even while turning the engine over by hand. It sounds like something is rubbing somewhere. Maybe I'm being paranoid? Maybe my new rails need to be 'broken in'? Wishful thinking I know.
Back the tensioner out a few threads and the squeak is gone.
I can't figure out what I could have done wrong to create this. If I put a chain guide in wrong I don't see how it could have all gone back together without issue.
Maybe I need to pull the IP and see if it's in the IP. But I swear it's coming from the lower end of the timing cover.