I have an 04 f4i. I am looking to get an APE manual cam chain tensioner because my stock tensioner is allowing slop in the cam chain. Does anyone have any experience in installing this or adjusting it??? Any help would be appreciated!!

 

This was just posted within the week....VERY VERY detailed instructions with pictures:

http://forums.cbrworld.net/forums/1445/ShowPost.aspx


Looks very simple

 

there is no slop in your cam chain. the rattle is coming from the cctl itself and not from the cam chain. even without a cctl the chain is pretty tight.

 

Funny, if there is no slop in the chain at all without the tensioner then why does the bike have one engineered into the engine. Isn't the purpose of adding tension, eg. (a chain tensioner), to remove slop from the chain.

Definitions of chain tensioner on the Web:

A device, often a grooved skate wheel or derailleur jockey wheel, strategically placed along the chain line to take up slack in a long chain

 

snobrdrdan, thanks for the post. It was very helpful.

 

yo mang, you being a smarta$$ or what?

it needs more than what is spec'd for it hence the tensioner is there to ensure it always has the right amount of tension...but as far as slop, like what's on your bike chain when you don't tighten it, not like that. open up your engine and look at it...

 

I am not trying to be a smarta** but I am a mechanic and my connotation of slop if something not being as tight as it is supposed to be and that is what the tensioner takes care of.

 

then your definition has very little margin of play correct? my defintion of slop is like slack, like chain slack...
yours is like millimeter or something.

take the bike apart and see mang.

 

Oh, ok. Thanks for agreeing with me about there being slop in my chain. so, I gather from your last post that weather it is one TRILLIONTH of a millimeter loose or one TRILLION millimeters loose it is still slop and my chain has some. Sweet, thanks for the help.

 

Tahoe is right, the noise comes form the tip of the CCT itself. The stock CCT can be removed and the pin that holds the tip on staked and the noise will stop. The noise cauises no harm or jumped chains.