[Chriszz11]

I'm finally attending my new engine for for my cobra. I was putting the new Ford secondary chains on and found that in order to get the chain on the passenger head, I have to loosen the cam caps on one cam, put the chain and sprockets on and tighten it back down. It seems way too tight to me, but I can't figure how it could be wrong. The chains are factory ford replacements. Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this? Thanks in advance!

 

[WickedSnake00]

Is that with the secondary tensioner pinned collapsed, or even taken out?

 

[Chriszz11]

When I release the tensioner it does push out a little bit, so it isn't completely compressed. It's all brand new components, cams included.

 

[Chriszz11]

I may have misread that, even with the tensioner compressed and pinned, it is impossible to get the chain and sprockets on without loosening one cam up.

 

[SSG Pate]

PICS?

 

[WickedSnake00]

Yeah that's way too tight. I left my cams in place, tensioner pinned, and I did put the chain on both sprockets and then slide them on for ease of assembly. But at no point did I have to loosen any cam caps. Unfortunately I do not have any spare secondary chains to measure for you. Are these factory sprockets?

 

[Chriszz11]

They are the cloyes adjustable gears. I have another set of chains with like 10k miles on them with stock cams, do you think one of those would be ok to reuse if it's looser?

 

[WickedSnake00]

Weird. Those are the same gears I'm using.

I wouldn't hesitate to use those chains; 10k mi is fairly new.

 

[Chriszz11]

Mmr told me as long as the cams aren't binding up, I should be fine. They said it can't be tighter than when I have full oil pressure to the tensioner. I might be ok to run it like that. I guess? Lol