Timing Chain - too loose? Ticking

[goatee]

I'm experiencing a pretty scary sounding ticking coming from the front of the motor. The ticking is very random but doesn't go away. This chain look too loose? I opened the oil cap for a few seconds and the noise doesn't appear to be coming from valves. I asked a few on the realm but it was in my old "it lives" post so I didn't get very many responses so I thought I'd add it here. The other side is good and tight. If you haven't read any of my posts I just recently put the head back on.

[dimus]

Hello men just look at this 80 minutes video for this issue

 

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000024223?duration_step=0&fields=23&filter_tiny=0&pp=40&query=datsun%20L16&sb=5&set=-1&sf=0&size_step=0&o=0&sample=1248920663:8bb34e4bc48f4135386933ddd175d8fb09475488

[Buzzbomb]

Hello men just look at this 80 minutes video for this issue

 

http://www.guba.com/watch/3000024223?duration_step=0&fields=23&filter_tiny=0&pp=40&query=datsun%20L16&sb=5&set=-1&sf=0&size_step=0&o=0&sample=1248920663:8bb34e4bc48f4135386933ddd175d8fb09475488

 

Be sure to look at the first 5 minutes, because that will show you how to tell whether or not your chain is worn by using a v and - mark.

 

Is your water pump going out? Sometimes they can make a racket with a ticking sound. You didn't say how the engine was running, that might be a clue to what is going on too.

[banzai510(hainz)]

turn the crank clock wise and put tension on the chain and ck the slack side for slop. otherwise I think you ust turned the crank counter clock wise but yea it looks loose.

 

slack side guide and tensioer????????????

 

If timming marks line up OK on chain for cam timming then the chain is OK and ck then tensioer slack side guide .

[hang_510]

The ticking is very random but doesn't go away. This chain look too loose?

 

you know my TC story :lol:

 

have you verified the valves are adjusted correctly? its hard to discern any noise from under the cap...

[goatee]

you know my TC story

lol yep! I don't want to take the cover offfff waaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

Thanks Hainz.

 

Yeah basically I'm just looking for a concensus that it looks loose then I'll get off my lazy but and do it. I ordered a head gasket so here we go I gyess.

 

No I'm not 100 percent sure on the valve I did get the right feeler finally yesterday (what do you mean you want a metric one lol) so I can check them. I would have THOUGHT anyway that taking the oil cap off I would have heard it more. I even used a tube to try and verify and I'd say I'm probably 80 percent sure it's chain on the slack side guide. I wonder if maybe the time the tensioner popped out possibly I bent that guide or something? I didn't notice but that was my first time ever in an engine that deep.

 

Frickin scary that is. :D

 

 

I'll also try hainz suggestion to check

turn the crank clock wise and put tension on the chain and ck the slack side for slop. otherwise I think you ust turned the crank counter clock wise but yea it looks loose.