Timing Chain or Timing Belt
10-19-2008, 10:52 AM
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Timing Chain or Timing Belt
I just bought a totally stock 2002 V6 with 65k on it. I wanted to know if it had a timing chain or a timing belt. Also when I should replace it... Thanks for the help.
10-19-2008, 10:56 AM
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i think a chain but this is more or less a shot in the dark for me sorry i couldn't be morehelp
10-19-2008, 11:04 AM
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10-19-2008, 02:50 PM
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its a chain. and i dont know that there is a certain time to change it. i just changed mine when it snapped in two lol
10-19-2008, 02:55 PM
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It's should never need to be changed under normal conditions, but if you have 100k miles on it and you are tearing it apart you might as well replace it, preventable matnience ftw.
10-19-2008, 03:00 PM
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yea they do pretty good. mine only snapped becuase of my own error lol
10-19-2008, 04:58 PM
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They have a double roller timing chain, or at least the 5.0s do, but it is a chain to say the least.
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