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something is missing

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520eek

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Sooo..... I am going through this bike and getting a baseline established. I have many things planned for tomorrow and now tonight I notice this about the tensioner. Any comments/help out there. Maybe some one has what I need just laying around on a shelf somewhere never to be used again?? Or...should I consider one those APE tensioners that I saw on another post here?
 
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What bike?? You can use the USER CP to edit your signature and add info like bike, year, where your located. You need the spring, the big knurled knob, the washers and the nut.
 
The parts you are missing should be interchangeable on all the GSes. Get the one with the steel knob, the plastic ones suck.

I have a bunch of tensioners laying around if you can't find one.
 
1980 850G duh...should have put that there right on the first line!
 
520eek said:
Sooo..... I am going through this bike and getting a baseline established. I have many things planned for tomorrow and now tonight I notice this about the tensioner. Any comments/help out there. Maybe some one has what I need just laying around on a shelf somewhere never to be used again??
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You are missing a spring, knurled knob and a retaining nut.

DON'T RUN THE ENGINE WITH THE TENSIONER LIKE THAT. The chain may skip teeth on the cam sprockets and cause a valve to contact the top of a piston.

Nasty and expensive mistake!

Someone local may be able to supply you with the parts or a complete replacement tensioner.
 
great......at least I didn't grenade it yet. One more thing to get done!
 
Anybody have the desired items that they would be willing to part with? Just PM you tkent02
 
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