I have taken the cover off to her three times and check the tension to make sure I had the 1 inch play the book states. I have not checked the alignment of the starter generator with the drive gear since I completed assembly of the engine. I’m thinking that’s probably the next job I had lined up for the engine. The engine, itself, Is an enigma because I got a whole box of partially assembled starter generator drive chains with the car. Likewise, I got a new appearing fly wheel and a clutch that looks completely rebuilt with the car. I had to swap out both of them because the clutch discs were badly out of balance and nearly shook the car apart, and the fly wheel was so out of balance it sounded like the rear main was about to fail. So I don’t know about the chain that’s on the engine. It appears to have been replaced when the engine was rebuilt, but if you’ve read my previous post, you’ll see the engine was assembled with a badly bent intake valve and two teeth out on the camshaft timing. I was hoping that someone who had a four-cylinder engine with the starter generator drive chain could tell me if it is indeed a silent chain, or some amount of noise was to be expected. If a certain level of noise is to be expected, I can live with that. But, if something is wrong, and the noise level is excessive, I need to fix it a ASAP.
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