StickShift

I think the pictures speak for themselves. Who needs those pads anyway?

StickShift

Another...

StickShift

Another shot of the top.... And the head does look to be just fine.

Skip

Good for another 10-15k miles I'd say

jonnybgood

I am dumbfounded or speechless or something. Have you bought any lottery tickets lately. Have you found any plastic bits in there anywhere? I wonder if it was installed w/o the pad. wtf over.

Big E

Just out of curiousity, what'd the bottom pad look like (assuming it existed) ??

Campeck

WHOA!!!
were did the little yellow with age pad go off to???

Z-man

Yikes!

Talk about driving on borrowed time!
-Z.

SoCal Driver

That is amazing. Talk about luck.

Use it as your avatar:

joseph mitro

holy ****, amazing luck you have. why couldn't i have that kind of luck?

StickShift

The first pic was the bottom of the tensioner. That came off a spare head I bought for the car. I search the head and only found one plastic bit, but the valve cover had already been off, so I imagine most of the bits were already removed. I replaced the pad on my car when I did the belts. Funny thing is, the chain really doesn't look that bad for all that wear, but it will be replaced in the rebuild!

T

KLR

Wow. I guess that you don't need that part afterall.

Dave E

Hey, it's lighter now!

IMB951

yep, gonna go pull my valve cover off and check the tensioner now!

haha, that pic is frightening

Idoktr

is it to remove the valve cover and how difficult to replace it??