Tell Me Why You Will Keep Your Auto Cam Chain Tensioner (2010)

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There is a man in OZ name Kelly Cork near Brisbane. He makes a tensioner from a Nissan cam chain tensioner. Many have been made and used. They press the tension from the inside out not the outside in. No modifications to case at all. They any change the chain tension in .030 increments so they never over do the tension. They are much more thought out and somewhat better priced than the other one as well. I have posted about this before. No one cares.
You have got my radar attention. Which Nissan car does he get the spring tensioner from, please?
 
This one


Ian James said:
Thank you all for the replies . I am going to go with it after shortening the spring by one coil and squaring up the end for slightly less tension wish me luck Cheers Ian


You do realise that shortening a spring by removing coils actually increases the spring rate. You reduce the preload but once this extra play is used up the spring is stronger not weaker. You could end up making the situation worse. Better option would be the same number of coils and length with a thinner wire size, plenty of custom coil makers around or make your own.


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The first thing you need to know is that cutting a coil spring will not only lower the vehicle, but it will also stiffen the spring making the ride and handling a bit firmer. But this is a good thing because lowering a vehicle reduces the amount of suspension travel. A stiffer spring will help reduce bottoming out.
 
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You have got my radar attention. Which Nissan car does he get the spring tensioner from, please?

There is a generic camchain tensioner with variations one of which is a Nissan, but there are others. My plan was to use

Cloyes 9-5327 Tensioner


but then I tried Andy the chainmans Merc chain with no tensioner and stopped that project.
 
There is a man in OZ name Kelly Cork near Brisbane. He makes a tensioner from a Nissan cam chain tensioner. Many have been made and used. They press the tension from the inside out not the outside in. No modifications to case at all. They any change the chain tension in .030 increments so they never over do the tension. They are much more thought out and somewhat better priced than the other one as well. I have posted about this before. No one cares.

I have been running one of these on my Norton for a very long time easy set up and has never had any problems at all, my timing chain runs very smoothly and the best thing not having to go into the timing case to adjust the chain every 10k miles and has done well over 100k miles with it on my Norton, can't remember when I installed it but was way back in the 80s, last time I was in my timing case was when I installed the Joe Hunt maggie just over 8 years ago, so yes I do care as it works great.

Ashley
 
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