You're not missing anything. I simply had some decent tensioners to chop up and figured instead of tossing them I'd try to make something useful out of them. Mostly though it started as curiosity of what would be different using preloaded stock tensioners for the timing setup vs some tensioners with an adjustable preload like the porsche ones, which of course got me thinking, why, what's the difference etc. anyhow these things worked well but I also agree that I've had great results with just using the primed stock ones :-)
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Originally Posted by Brad Roberts
I appreciate all the hard work and effort that went into these (I know what it takes)
But...
Why??
We've built a LOT of engines.. (with zero cam timing issues) and NEVER used the factory tools or any special modified tensioner??
We thread them in until the chain stops moving (which means your against the pad)
Typically this is 2-3 complete turns. Unless your tensioners are sitting for 6months?? I've rarely had them bleed down unless we tried to bleed them down.
Am I missing something??
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