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I need someone's advice with these spring loaded rachet type tensioners on the M102 engines please. Even with the rachet engaged into the body the plunger itself can go backwards into the body when pressure is applied but only by 4mm or so then it stops. By means I am able rock the plunger back...

HI Guys I have 160K miles on my CLK 230 Kompressor W208 chasis and at about 2300rpm I hear a little rattle (regardless of what speed I am doing). I having checked the pulleys and replaced a couple, but the noise is still there. I am thinking it may be a worn timing chain tensioner and the...

Hi guys. I'm in need of some desperate help. My car is a 1983 W123 200 4 speed (M102.920). I have recently replaced the single row timing chain and tensioner due to a rattling or tapping noise caused by the chain hitting the timing chain cover somewhere, although the problem still persists...

Hi all, have 1998 230K with a noisey cam chain on start up, new tensioner fitted, new chain and new top tensioner, its for 3 seconds the noise and its as quiet as ever there after, have changed oil filter, if I start up same day no noise, oil draining away from tensioner? the electro magnet on...

Please help me work out whether i need a new timing chain tensioner or whether i am suffering from 'pinking'. My old 300E sounds ever so slightly like a diesel when it starts but then quietens - except when up a hill and then a faint rattling can be heard. Is this the chain or is it pinking...

Hi All Some advise needed, I have a 2005 220CDI Chassis No: WDC2030082R195538 8 Engine No: 646963 30 394497 I have just started getting a very slight rattle as I am accelerating is this the CAM/Timing chain needing replacement,the car has done 104000 miles but I...

Hi All Thought people might like to know that there is a cheaper solution to the camshaft timing adjusting gears problem on the M271 engine than replacing with OEM gears at almost £500 per gear now. I specialize in repairing these engines and it was always a factor of cost to repair or...

The wives car has had this rattle for some time, I thorough it was the heat shields but just the other day with a mechanical clatter, its stopped, only on the drive. I did think the starter bendix had gone as it sounded like the engine was not turning over and having pulled it out, and re...

Hi I just bought a 2006 a170 **********e, and now I find that it has a tappet like sound all through the range, but especially at idle, and when driving at 4000rpm. I have not listened with bonnet open, and someone revving the engine. I did stand there and listen to it idle, and the engine...

When i start my c250 in the mornings or when its been sitting up few hours you can hear the chain being noisy for few seconds its 2010 Mercedes any thing to worry about ?

Hi All, I've noticed the last couple of times I've started the car a slight rattle on start up. On each occasion, it has happened from cold start and only when the engine hasn't "caught" cleanly on all cylinders. The chain and tensioner where changed 8k miles ago and I've checked the...

1998, 300 td, 606 engine. does the timing chain tensioner adjust automatically as the chain wears? or does it need adjusting manually? If adjusted manually, how is it done? do you run engine and adjust it whilst listening to it?

Hi, does anyone know were the cam chain adjuster is on a 230 compressor engine,? need to remove cylinder head and would like to change chain at same time, does the engine need to come out? Any assistance would be appreciated. :dk:

Welcome everyone. I have a small leak from the timing chain cover but mechanic told me it is the cover on the bottom. It is not the oil pan but timing chain cover. I know how to get out the top cover but I have no clue how to get it to the bottom one. My computer with SD is away from me now and...

hi the timing chain on my m103 engine occassionally rattles when engine is hot an i was wondering whether this was anything to do with the fact that i put in synthetic oil by mistake. If i went back to 20/50 mineral, would that quieten it a bit? thanks MJ in Beirut

My mates Dad has a 2010 1.6 auto Astra and was wondering if it would have a cam chain or belt and at what interval/mileage should it be changed...any ideas guys?

Hi all I have had a slight rattle on cold start and engine management light on for a few months now. Which intermittently turns on and off. I decided today to take it to local mechanic to get it checked out using his diagnostic machine. Camshaft timing Error in exhaust camshaft detected...

Hi, I have a 2004 C180 Kompressor Auto. A month ago the car begin idling very lumpy (it doesn't sound as bad in higher revs) and due to this, it's not driveable (I don't want to do anymore damage). When I bought it, it had the service light on and I only drove it for a few weeks before this...

The engine light has come on on my 2008 C180 Auto. There is 100,000 mile on the clock. The garage has told me that I need a new timing chain. I was under the impression that as it was a timing chain and not a belt it did not have to be changed. They are also saying that the 2 gears might be...

Hi, I've dug around, but no success with this one. Would anyone know what 2ltr (ish) M102 got the Twin Chain, was it the 962? Thanks in advance. Cheers, Paul