Ooh thats a good idea - I've got one of those for drains. I'll have a look tomorrow. I have Elsawin thanks
I love how the tensioner procedure starts with "Remove engine"
When I picked it up it was just showing Cam pos sensor G40 open or short, and that came straight back after clearing everything. By the time I got home we also had:
Fuel Trim bank 1 too rich
Multiple cylinder misfire
Cylinder 5 misfire
Cylinder 8 misfire
Cylinder 7 misfire
G40 is the one on bank 1 afaik - that makes sense, as does the fuel trim. The misfires on bank 2 seem a little odd, but then the cam belt was flapping about all over the place so who knows what bank 2 was doing. Interestingly the misfires only happened on light throttle. Give it a bootfull and it was fine - scary now to think that it could have skipped one or many teeth at any moment
Here's an interesting shot of the tensioner. Pretty sure there should be a filter in the oil feed hole but it's nowhere to be seen. Given that the klutz who did the cam cover gaskets glooped the hell out of everything with some sort of evil silicone it wouldn't surprise me if the tensioner is blocked with some of it.
Here's another pic of how high it was riding when the cam jumps about
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The other one doesn't allow the chain to go higher than the two ears whereas this one just flaps about. I'm going to clean all the goop out of the engine so I'll have a look at the other one to see if that still has it's filter. At least I can nick the one from the ebay special if it's missing! The bottom shoe is locked solid btw - no idea if thats normal or not. I've dealt with engines which have these before, but never had cause to remove one til now.