Manual vs auto cam chain tenioners

79MKII wrote:

Anyone ever had luck setting one of these APE tensioners?? I just tried again tonight and I can't feel when it touches. It also seems to vary quite a bit depending on where the crank is positioned. I just haven't felt right about this since I bought it. I don't know if it's too tight or too loose


Maybe I'll go back to my converted stocker...

I seemed to be able to set the APE manual tensioner without any problems until last year and then one day I just could not get it right. Maybe I just had one to many bottles of Moosehead that day. It was either to tight or to loose and noisey. Anyway, I took it off and went back to stock. I think I was getting paranoid reading all the possible horror stories. Hav'nt had a problem with the stock one