tensioner clip tool

[tmcolegr]

so let me "check for understanding"....

The steel bodied tensioners are a direct replacement of the plastic bodied tensioners? All the remaining 3V timing components (arms, tensioners, etc.) will work with the steel bodied tensioners? No other changes are required?

Is priming the steel bodied tensioners prior to startup still required?

 

[US-1]

so let me "check for understanding"....

The steel bodied tensioners are a direct replacement of the plastic bodied tensioners? All the remaining 3V timing components (arms, tensioners, etc.) will work with the steel bodied tensioners? No other changes are required?

Correct.

Is priming the steel bodied tensioners prior to startup still required?

Nope. Get them in place with a pin of some sorts holding the tensioner arm in the retracted position. Once it is all ready to go, you pull the pin on the tensioner and it will extend to a point where it holds the chains in place for startup oil pressure to reach it. You're going to prime the engine anyway so it's really no big deal.

 

[tmcolegr]

Good deal. Thanks for the info.

I have been reading everything I could find on the plastic bodied 3V tensioners and besides being plastic bodied, they don't hold the chains tight while the engine is cranking until oil pressure is acheived.

 

[one eyed willy]

Good deal. Thanks for the info.

I have been reading everything I could find on the plastic bodied 3V tensioners and besides being plastic bodied, they don't hold the chains tight while the engine is cranking until oil pressure is acheived.

mine held pressure until i squeezed them to push the oil out, i think they have a check valve in them to allow oil in and keep the oil in. they dont de-pressurize unless you really squeeze the shit out of them.i had to put them in a vise.

 

[Redfire]

I assume the tensioners were the only items upgraded and you retained the remainder of the 3V timing components?

Yes. Everything else is stock 3V.

 

[fastregalwe2]

mine held pressure until i squeezed them to push the oil out

same here