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Timing belt or chain for twin cam.

  • wanderinstar
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10 Jan 2012 15:38 #30488 by wanderinstar
Timing belt or chain for twin cam. was created by wanderinstar
I was talking to someone the other week and he was in the process of fitting a timing belt to a single cam motor. He said that because I had the twin cam I would not have to change a belt as it had a chain fitted. Is this correct? As it seems a bit of a retrograde step, going back to a chain.
Ian

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10 Jan 2012 16:14 #30497 by darthloachie
Replied by darthloachie on topic Re: Timing belt or chain for twin cam.
yep thats right

a lot of newer cars have gone back to chains to reduce maintenance requirements

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10 Jan 2012 18:10 #30524 by facade
Unless the car says "Vauxhall" on the back a chain will outlive the rest of the car: we had 270,000 miles on a Jaguar without ever messing with the chain.

You are forever messing with a rubber band, and you don't get away with just the band: oh no, needs new idler rollers, tensioners, water pumps............

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)

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