hello all, I am now beginning to fret and stew over my timing chain on my SD. My car currently has 215,500 on odo and I am worried about it. I was think last night that "oh what the heck, I'll just replace it" until I found out that the change out with new tensioner would run me close to $180!!

What ways are there to tell if chain is ok? Valves were adjusted at 202,000 miles by an indy garage (have slip from PO). Should I just open the valve cover and measure the chain pitch, and while I'm there re-adjust the valves? If so, what is orig/max chain pitch dimensions? I have a caliper to measure with, accurate supposedly to .001"


Thanks!

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