Re: can my timing chain go bad with tensioner?

From: Tony Troidl (ttroidl@bluefrognet.net)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 16:36:03 EDT


Broken skirt on one of your pistons!!!!

Tony.
----- Original Message -----
From: Wes Weems <wweems@fix.net>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:30 AM
Subject: DML: can my timing chain go bad with tensioner?

>
> 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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