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Why not use gloves

Lol I has a push rod engine in it That year should have a sohc And 4pointslow is a sohc guy Funny this ride ended up in his hands

So true! So...what's four grunts and a fart equal lol

I used a pipe wrench and lock tight on reinstall

Yes its correct

All of us have bought and run the eBay one We have no experience with the sparks racing unit However the sparks racing unit is probably higher quality If I was you I would order both the $20 unit from amazon and the sparx racing be the 1 to compare them for us

Spot on

No

I'd Assemble everything with the hydraulic tensioners And add the manual tensioners after a few hundred miles That's just how I would do it

Well I do like red heads

I did mine in the truck as well

Yea mine The reading drifted over time and when winter came we had hard start issues

What parts are you replacing exactly?

The aftermarket sensors on the aluminum thermostat housing Only lasted a year gave me hard starting issues replaced it with a ford ecu temp sensor brandused From the junkyard

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I just did this job Mine sounded like crickets

Lol

Got that Carolina lean lol

You will feel it . If you adjust to tight you will see the engine stumble If you tighten the chain too much you will simply open a valve And the engine will run poorly Don't overthink ITIT's easy

Remove the valve core and retest

Looks great

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I have no idea if that would work at that point I'd just go manual His bypass only does that front tensioner What about the back one Mine preoiles the whole engine which is minty Manual tensioner s cover the problematic hydraulic tensioners

Yes but as they get longer the spring stays the same Been a couple years and I've never adjusted them Ill check them if They make noise or after 5 years

Yes but it don't sometimes even when its new Yes that's how it's ment to work And the rattle is from the weak spring but also include The chain stretching in your calculations Yes When the chain stretches even a little you will start to get rattle Personally on my sleeper truck I run the...