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Originally Posted by x98boardwell
I'm in the middle of putting back together the 3.2 after a rebuild on my 87.
I am finished with cam timing and about to install my chain tensioners. The issue that I'm running into is not having (cannot find) the spacers which slide onto the shaft where the sprocket for chain tensioning rides on before I install the tensioner itself.
Its been months since i tore it apart and now having trouble remembering if I even had them? There is definitely a space between the tensioner and the sprocket and I know that shouldn't have that much freedom to slide in and out correct?
The tensioner bottoms out based on the threaded shaft where you actually tighten it down onto so there can't be an issue there.
My question is from what the pics are telling me below is that these spacers were only used with tensioner #930.105.053.00. My tensioner is 930.105.547.4R. Is this a superseded number that Pelican isn't aware?
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Bryan,
You have the new wider idler gear/s in your engine. These don’t need the spacers like the early narrow idler gears used in ‘78~’79 SC’s and earlier models. Factory engines equipped with hydraulic tensioners came with the wider idlers gears.
Tony