Loren, you are flirting with a total KABOM.My 86 560Sl had 145K on it with no chain slap, just a leaking valve cover gasket. Pulled the cover and found the nylon chain guides broken into 4 pieces. Oilers, tensioner. chain guides new chain and gasket was 1200 bucks at my Indie. Best money I ever spent! Like this comment or not, I have lost faith in the MB V8 engines.
John On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Loren Faeth<lfa...@leadingchange.com> wrote: > How long/difficult of a job is it to change the tensioner on the 3.8 gasser? > How much stuff has to be taken off to get to the tensioner? Anyone able to > get me the pdf for that job? (1985 380SL) > > Daughter's Sl makes quite a clatter at startup at the front of the right > bank. It only lasts a second. Sounds like a tensioner leaking down to me. > Anybody got a better idea? ~130k on the car. Chain is probably a little > loose, but shouldn't need changing yet. > > Loren Faeth > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
