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RE: [TR] TR3 Timing Chain Rattle

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Subject: RE: [TR] TR3 Timing Chain Rattle
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:14:19 -0700
> I have to disagree with your statement about it being ok to drive it with
> a broken tensioner.  A broken tensioner cost Susan a race motor at
> Mosport in 2003.  The tensioner eventually got caught up in the chain and
> the chain chewed it to shreds dropping the bits down into the oil pan and
> up into the pump.

Well, I can't argue with that!  Except perhaps to hope that what Susan was
doing at Mosport didn't qualify as "putter around on a few short easy
trips".  I drove several hundred miles (at least) with a broken tensioner,
and no drama; but maybe I was just lucky.

Randall


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