manual camchain tensioner fitment guide

[nick crisp]

well any body with any sense would not restart an engine with suspected cam chain tensioner failure.....surely ????

Well, you'd think so, but apparently some people do. He did say that the couple of cases he had in mind, the riders heard a rattling noise, stopped the bike and looked for obvious problems, and when they couldn't see anything wrong, they restarted the bike only to have the cam chain jump. So it seems they didn't actually know it was cam chain noise following tensioner failure that they'd heard. Not everyone is knowledgeable enough to identify the noise a rattling chain makes - some people just ride their bikes and let their mechanic do all the worrying for them. Nothing wrong with that, except of course you won't know when your cam chain is about to cause mayhem! Perhaps such people are ideal candidates for a manual tensioner?!