Check that you have the anti-drainback tube installed in the oil filter.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert k. smith" <rksmith46@hotmail.com>
To: <mtbdavid2@aol.com>; "roadster list" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Timing chain rattle at start up (death rattle)
> hi david, in addition to shiming up the tens., i hope they replaced the
> timing
> chains,( precautionary) since, you probably dont know how many miles
> are on the chains, and it sounds like the top chain is stretched.(provided
> you
> shimed the cam towers up to standard. you have to measure the head thick.
> subtract it from 4.528[std.], and shim up the head that amount). you dont
> know if the head has been machined before, unless you measure it. im sure
> you know if a chain breaks, at least 2 valves will bend. sorry to be a
> harbinger of doom. bob smith
> 69 srl311
>> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007
>> 18:26:50 -0400>
> From: mtbdavid2@aol.com> Subject: [Roadsters] Timing chain rattle at start
> up
> (death rattle)> > Hi,> ? I had another non-rebuilt?2liter motor dropped
> into
> my '68 2000.? I ended up using my original head which has been rebuilt
> (shaved
> and cam towers shimmed with B cam).? I went to pick up the car today?from
> the
> shop which installed the motor and noticed when I started the car the
> dreaded
> death rattle.? I had the shop pull?the valve cover and sure enough the
> timing
> chaining is eating into the timing chain hanger when I start the car.?
> After
> startup the rattle goes away, I suppose it gets enough oil pressure after
> starting to keep the chain off the hanger.? > > Is there any quick fixes
> to
> keep more tension on the chain when the motor is not running?? I may have
> been
> hallucinating but I thought I had seen a tie wrap on the tensioner to keep
> the
> tensioner out when the motor is not running.? This was on my rebuilt head
> with
> the original motor.? There isn't a tie wrap on there now.? I am looking
> for
> the easiest, cheapest fix to get by for a year or so.? I already spent too
> much money buying the used motor and having the motor installed.> >
> Thanks,>
> David>
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