One more thought I have, if he's got a tight chain when he tries to link up both ends (tensioner out) there would be slack either between cam and IP, (after it comes out of the rail guide) or IP and crank! If that's the case you would be in big trouble as soon as it fired off, assuming you compensated the IP.....so it could fire. ...........................Good Luck, hope I added help, not confusuion........BB

BusyBenz, you nor anyone else could add to the confusion I bring upon myself. And now I have confused yuz guys with my failure to think through the simple kinematics properly. My brain gets so tired with this car and the other 90% of stresses going on, and I fail to think straight.
I am so sorry for you all trying to help when I must have been confusing you extremely.
I have been out Mom's Day shopping with the kids. And as is often the case, as soon as I get away from the problem at hand, a light bulb goes off.
While driving in the Peugeot, I realized that if I am off a tooth, the way to fix it is with the spline drive. Although I know the chain pulls tight between crank & IP when running, I was thinking that somehow I would have added one tooth of length between there. Duh! That makes no sense, because it is a fixed distance from crank to IP drive, and so the sprockets rotate and you will always have the same length of chain there. So you pull the IP and shift the spline drive and it should go back to approximately where it was, then you fine tune it with the IP mounting.
Or maybe I can put it back where it was just with the IP mounting adjustment?
Sorry everyone.
I still would like to know about the master link plate that I think may be in there somewhere. Could it be between the chain and the forward wall of the block at the bottom? Is there a danger that it will get caught up in the chain, if the engine turns over by hand OK? Can I just forget about it?

Thanks.
Ted.
Over...

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'92 300D 2.5 Turbo
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TedG,

You want to find the extra cam link end and not when you are going 65MPH like happened to me. But in my case it was a piece of an allen wrench.

It broke the chain in 3 places, broke the cam and towers, striped the teeth on the crankshaft chain sprocket and ruined the rings and bearings from loss of oil pressure.

I had to tow it home from Ohio to eastern PA and overhaul the engine. It was a '64 190D engine.

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