OK, so I managed to retrieve the chain I inadvertantly dropped (or rather that the car dropped itself) into the abyss. Got it safety wired back up, new chain run in, but now it's one link too long? Looks like it skipped somewhere, but advanced or retarded, that IS the question??

Thinking I'll use the old link to join it together temporarily, then run it through with the slack on one side and see how it times out, then the other side if it's grossly off.

Anyone have any ideas other than that?

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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto

1983 300D - parts car

1979 300TD Auto - Parts car.

1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts.


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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol

TomJ,

Your chain may not be in the chain guides properly or the
tensioner quide may not be taking up the slack.

Check that you don't have the chain on the wrong side of a chain guide.

P E H

as PEH says, the chain may be lying OVER the sproket teeth instead of being meshed, hence the slack.

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1982 300SD (214 k, excellent shape) kidmobile running mostly biodiesel, gets 31 mpg hwy with 2.82 rear from a euro 500SEL



1976 115 body 240D 4-speed (traded for Jeep parts) - Engine lives on in my CJ7