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rattly timing chain on M103 engine

Stringer

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Location
Lebanon
Car
300E 1987
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?


And can i reduce it just by putting in a particular grade oil? thicker? thinner?
thanks
MJ
 

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