I was wondering if anyone knew if there was more than one piece of plastic in the middle of the tensionor. Drop mine in the timing case and was able to get the cylinder and the spring. The cylinder has a plastic cylinder in it smaller than the spring. Just wondering if there are more of these?

it goes metal piece>plastic cylinder> spring > metal cylinder cap(hallow)

-James

 

Yup if you have the plastic "rod" you recovered all the parts... Count your blessings.
I put a rag under the tensioner so it would catch everything headed south in the timing chain cover

 

thank you

I have counted my blessings and am very thankful things turned out good so far.