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Okay... I looked through the self-help section and did a forum search, but nothing on this one...
I adjusted my primary chain last week and noted that my tensioner shoe had significant wear. The clue was a higher amount of particulate visibly suspended(the "graphite" look) in the primary oil and an intermittent cold noise that sounds like a sickly cricket coming from down there briefly, until things get warm...(45k miles, 2004 EGC, PM services by the book @ interval or earlier than spec'd) so I went and bought a new shoe, gasket, oil, yada-yada...
Time is a constraint for me and I hate my cage, and it was during this conversation among friends, someone suggested to me that I could change the shoe through the adjuster door instead of pulling the primary cover. Does anyone know if this is feasible/possible? I mean, I'd rather get an eyeball on the whole set-up(tooth wear, basket condition, etc.) but in terms of rideability and service history, I feel like it's worthwhile to go the quick route unless I'm gonna be creating more work for myself than it's worth, trying to reach in there with a pinky-finger and a bent coat-hanger, or something... In other words, I have no reason to believe that I have anything remarkably beyond normal wear, so why bother with a bigger fix than I truly need to for the moment?
An additional consideration is that I'm thinking seriously about a DD6, so again, why take it all the way down right now if I'm gonna be up to my elbows in it in 6 months anyway?
Gentlemen, your opinions are sought and will be valued!
Happy Motorin'... -F-
I adjusted my primary chain last week and noted that my tensioner shoe had significant wear. The clue was a higher amount of particulate visibly suspended(the "graphite" look) in the primary oil and an intermittent cold noise that sounds like a sickly cricket coming from down there briefly, until things get warm...(45k miles, 2004 EGC, PM services by the book @ interval or earlier than spec'd) so I went and bought a new shoe, gasket, oil, yada-yada...
Time is a constraint for me and I hate my cage, and it was during this conversation among friends, someone suggested to me that I could change the shoe through the adjuster door instead of pulling the primary cover. Does anyone know if this is feasible/possible? I mean, I'd rather get an eyeball on the whole set-up(tooth wear, basket condition, etc.) but in terms of rideability and service history, I feel like it's worthwhile to go the quick route unless I'm gonna be creating more work for myself than it's worth, trying to reach in there with a pinky-finger and a bent coat-hanger, or something... In other words, I have no reason to believe that I have anything remarkably beyond normal wear, so why bother with a bigger fix than I truly need to for the moment?
An additional consideration is that I'm thinking seriously about a DD6, so again, why take it all the way down right now if I'm gonna be up to my elbows in it in 6 months anyway?
Gentlemen, your opinions are sought and will be valued!
Happy Motorin'... -F-
newsmile055: ) I did notice that the shoe was beginning to trench a little, and for the price of a shoe and a gasket, why not?! And on the outside chance I DO find something noteworthy in there, I'll be glad I did it... the "right" way.