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<blockquote data-quote="JustSendIt251AL" data-source="post: 22968" data-attributes="member: 8533"><p>Ok, I've been working on Ecotec's a good bit and have a great understanding of them. My question is, when the timing chain starts to rattle, which is the culprit of these ? (1) Does the slack come from the chain stretching and the tensioner maxing out? (2) Does the slack come from just the tensioner failing ? Reason I am asking is because my wife got home today and I heard her 2016 Equinox and the timing chain is loose. Kinda in a financial hardship right now, and wanted others opinion on, just to get me out of a bind, does anyone think that if I just replaced the timing chain and guide, and took the stock tensioner that I have now apart, clean it and then reset it then put it together if it would buy us enough time to buy a good cloyes kit, or do you think that I should just buy a tensioner instead because that's the failure.&nbsp; I personally believe that if I replaces the chain and the guide and reset the same tensioner&nbsp; that I would be alright for at the least 2 weeks. What's your honest opinion? Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="JustSendIt251AL, post: 22968, member: 8533"] Ok, I've been working on Ecotec's a good bit and have a great understanding of them. My question is, when the timing chain starts to rattle, which is the culprit of these ? (1) Does the slack come from the chain stretching and the tensioner maxing out? (2) Does the slack come from just the tensioner failing ? Reason I am asking is because my wife got home today and I heard her 2016 Equinox and the timing chain is loose. Kinda in a financial hardship right now, and wanted others opinion on, just to get me out of a bind, does anyone think that if I just replaced the timing chain and guide, and took the stock tensioner that I have now apart, clean it and then reset it then put it together if it would buy us enough time to buy a good cloyes kit, or do you think that I should just buy a tensioner instead because that's the failure. I personally believe that if I replaces the chain and the guide and reset the same tensioner that I would be alright for at the least 2 weeks. What's your honest opinion? Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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