Re: Timing chain tightening technique...

["Jason Hagen" <hagen_jason1@domain.elided>]

I use method #4 (pull tension toward tensioner with special tool) with the 
same tool used to adjust the cam timing.  I had bad results when trying to 
adjust with the engine running...

-Jason Hagen
'73 Spider





> From: Jim Lehman <jlehman@domain.elided>
> Reply-To: Jim Lehman <jlehman@domain.elided>
> To: alfa-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Timing chain tightening technique...
> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:04:55 -0500
>
> Dear Alfisti,
>
> I own a 1967 1600cc Spider and have noticed an intermittent brief slap at 
> very low idle from the front of the engine.  Suspecting a loose timing 
> chain I began reading various sources and have come across four distinct 
> ways of tightening the timing chain on a 4 cylinder alfa, as follows:
>
> 1. Owner's manual says to do it while running at an idle.
> 2. Pat Braden's bible says to roll the car while in 5th gear is engaged for 
> one complete revolution.
> 3. Pat Braden describes his own method of using a screw driver for leverage 
> to tighten manually with the cam cover removed.
> 4. Use a special Alfa tool to clamp on the end of each cam and pull any 
> slack toward the tensioner pulley.
>
> So, which of the above methods have you used and which do you recommend??  
> Have you always checked the cam timing afterwards?
>
> Jim Lehman
> Burdett, NY
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