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Old 12-06-2019, 02:30 PM
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Well its back together today and running, noise is gone im so thankful. Heres what happened, hopefully this will help someone else in the future.

The chain tensioner is supposed to ratchet out and lock into detents on it own. Well this brand new tensioner was stuck in the 1st detent, i guess oil pressure and the spring alone was not enough force to get it to pop into the second detent. I removed the cap and spring from the tensioner, turned the camshaft backwards to take up all the slack in the chain that was on the drivers side, so now the slack was on the tensioner side, then took a brass drift the same size as the piston of the tensioner and knocked the tensioner out in the second detent where it locked in tight. Reassembled everything, verified injection timing with AB light, was off 1 degree, so not a big deal. Drove vehicle and got it hot, noise resolved. All because that tensioner would pop out to the 2nd detent without a little extra force. Hopefully this will help someone in the future.
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