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Didn't leave anything off. I just didn't like the rattling and clanking that it was making. When you fill the wedge with oil and put the spring in it, you have to put it back in the sleeve. In order to get it in the sleeve and get the hook on it to close it for install, you have to push it on the sleeve pretty tight. I think that it may have not loosened enough and there was slop in the chain. I took the cover off and tapped on the rear of the wedge and moved it out a little bit to more tension on the chain. I gotta put some fluid back in and take it out again when I get a chance to see.
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Didn't leave anything off. I just didn't like the rattling and clanking that it was making. When you fill the wedge with oil and put the spring in it, you have to put it back in the sleeve. In order to get it in the sleeve and get the hook on it to close it for install, you have to push it on the sleeve pretty tight. I think that it may have not loosened enough and there was slop in the chain. I took the cover off and tapped on the rear of the wedge and moved it out a little bit to more tension on the chain. I gotta put some fluid back in and take it out again when I get a chance to see.
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Didn't leave anything off. I just didn't like the rattling and clanking that it was making. When you fill the wedge with oil and put the spring in it, you have to put it back in the sleeve. In order to get it in the sleeve and get the hook on it to close it for install, you have to push it on the sleeve pretty tight. I think that it may have not loosened enough and there was slop in the chain. I took the cover off and tapped on the rear of the wedge and moved it out a little bit to more tension on the chain. I gotta put some fluid back in and take it out again when I get a chance to see.
regarding the SOHB tensioner
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As a matter of fact I did. I took apart my primary three different times. After talking with Herko and getting some machinist advice from soos I had to do a couple of things. I had to take the unit out and I had to fix the indents in the back of the unit where the spacers sit as they were off. I had to take the shaft off and polish it and chamfer the top of it as it wouldn't slide in the hole in the wedge. I finally got it to work properly. I was going to put a shim in the spring or get a stiffer spring, but I didn't. However, when riding it today there was no chain slap, but if at a higher RPM and when I left off the throttle I could hear the wedge vibrating a little bit. I think that a shim inside the spring in the shaft will help that or a stiffer spring. It's still a shame that one has to basically rebuild this thing because of **** poor tolerances by SOHB.
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In all honesty, if you look at the OE HD tensioner you could accomplish the same thing by filing/grinding off the notches in the bottom of the wedge and/or the base of it. You would then wind up with the exact thing that the SOHB wedge is accomplishing, but you would have better tolerances and the thing would probably work better. I am going to try and put a shim in the spring or get a stiffer spring and I think that will combat the vibration of it at decel as it would hold it tighter against the bottom of the pad.
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