Re: can my timing chain go bad with tensioner?

From: Wes Weems (wweems@fix.net)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 11:53:12 EDT


My truck has 79k mi on it... and I pulled one of those mechanics steths...
and I cant pinpoint where the noise is coming from... so I dont even know
what to say... boggles the mind.

WEs

At 08:30 AM 8/9/2002, you wrote:

>Ok,
>
>My little 3.9l dodge dakota is on its 3rd timing chain... this time I was
>smart enough to toss a tensioner on it... however now I am getting the
>same noise again (which sounds something like diesel clatter), except it
>seems to be kinda coming from the right side of my engine (if I was
>looking at it from under the hood. I have no idea what this could possibly
>be. What in the valve train might make a clatter sorta noise at idle. I
>for once, actually have some money for parts... but I dont want to fix
>what doesnt need to be fixed.
>
>
>
>Wes



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