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Old 11-20-2007, 05:28 PM   #7 (permalink)
Charlies84380SE
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Date registered: Sep 2007
Vehicle: 1984 MB 380 SE, 1989 560 SEC
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Originally Posted by RNT View Post
You can tell if it is double chain by feeling the chain on the upper sprocket with your finger (remove the oil cap)
IF your fingers are long enough....mine aren't. I can feel the sprocket and the oblong hole in the sprocket, and the thickness of the sprocket just below the chain (through the hole) and I can feel one side of the chain, but my fingers are too short to search (feel) further down or across or to where the chain would be just off the sprocket. God gave me small hands and short fingers...D*MN!

If I knew the thickness difference(single row and double row) in the sprocket at the chain, I could figure it out. I can feel the bottm of the chain links on both sides of the sprocket, but that's about it.

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