[AlCan]

Happy New Year goz007,

Thanks for your comments - I agree 100%. It's looking more and more like the only way to solve this is to pull it apart to get that tensioner on the bench.

Yep, possibly the cam chain is the least of the problems, which is kindof why I haven't put full effort into the Oil Pressure gauge. If you've read my other posts, this is the same car that's got the weird 3rd to 1st gearchange issue and I'm mainly focused on that for now. The car has an ant farm of small problems. I grabbed it because it was sold as dud transmission and was hoping the 133K young engine was okay and trans fixable, but it turns out almost the opposite.

Maybe I'd better flip back to that thread because I've done a bit more on that - made no real progress - except that I'm now suspecting that problem and this one have the same root cause... Serious neglect of oil changes. Again, as many questions as answers though.