Watch what happens to a motorcycle chain, power on power off, the sprockets move forward and back out of phase, its a lot more accurate with a tensioner.
Timing Chain Tensioner
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austinmini1963
, Oct 13 2013 01:58 PM
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KernowCooper
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Posted 15 October 2013 - 07:45 PM
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Posted 15 October 2013 - 08:04 PM
i would always use a tensioner personally.
however i have had one fail, the thin metal part (i think its spring steel) ended up stabbing a hole through the side of the cover and causing one huge oil leak! that was on the way back from uttoxeter a few years ago.
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Posted 15 October 2013 - 09:10 PM
if you could get a tensioner for duplex gears I would fir one for sure. the issue is that using the simplex tensioner on a duplex chain, the pad will break up. as stated bmc/bl didn't fit them with their duplex chained engines
in reality I don't think that it makes a whole world of difference in the real world.
its down to preference. though after having a pad wear to basically nothing on one build I have built my engines without since without issues.
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