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Old 12-27-2020, 04:53 AM
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Found a guy who did this on another forum and he said it fixed the problem. He put a stronger spring in his tensioner. It kinda makes sense. If your chain is slightly elongated then buying a new tensioner may not help because it will be speced out to match an in spec chain. If your chain is out of spec the theory goes, you may need an out of spec tensioner. I guess I would try a 3rd party spring that was just mildly stronger and if that did not help buy one just a little bit stronger, until the noise goes away. Assuming this actually works of course and assuming you are willing to take the risk.
Later I found mention of other people who have reported good results using the spring for an M54 tensioner in their M62 tensioners. You can buy the M54 spring online for $5 US.
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