Re: [HSS] Wrench needed to adjust timing chain

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Hudson Town Sedan wrote:

>

> I need to adjust the tension on the timing chain on my '29 Town Sedan.

> I have almost 1/2 inch circumference rotation on the generator shaft,

> where 1/8 inch is specified.

>

> the service manual specifies a special spanner wrench. It would appear

> that one could do the job with a modern spanner of the right size. Can

> anyone provide the proper size, or a source for the OEM wrench? If

> neither of those options are available, could somebody make a

> photocopy image of an OEM original and email it to me so I can use it

> as a template to make one out of 1/4" sheet aluminum?

>

> Thanks!

>

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> Lew Phelps

> Pasadena, CA

> 1929 Hudson Town Sedan

> http://home.earthlink.net/~lewphelps/hudson_29

Lew, I just use a piece of bar ground down to the size to fit in the

slots. Whatever you do, don't hammer the lugs on the adjuster, they

break off! Another point to watch out for, if you see a punch mark on

the adjusting lugs at around the 2'o'clock position,(looking from the

back) this indicates that you have reached full adjustment of the chain.

Geoff.