Originally Posted by Cycle Tourist

Thought I'd post the final repair since everyone was so helpful. Your observation wins the award though. I tried alot of stuff but a smaller, big chainring did the trick. A 48 instead of the 52 that was on it. The chainrings were Sugino on a Maxy crank. I almost gave up and put a double on it but a Trek TX700 deserved a triple. Thanks for everyone's suggestions. This was one I hadn't come across before. I had a recummbant touring bike that had a 53-42-24 and had no problem but I was probably just lucky I guess. The looong chain probably helped too. Thanks again.😘