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Old March 13th 18, 12:52 PM posted to rec.autos.tech
J.B. Wood[_2_]
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Default stretched timing belt?

On 02/27/2018 01:39 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

>> On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 10:12:36 PM UTC+8, Scott Dorsey wrote:


>> I spoke to the service manager and he told me that the belt had jumped a
>> tooth, which is enough to make the engine rat****.

>
> They do that, yeah.
> --scott
>


Hello, and some years back I owned a 1991 Chevy Lumina Z-34. It had
both a timing belt and timing chain (but that's another story). At
about 82,000 mi the engine up and quit. In my case some of the toothed
projections on the belt had sheared off rather than the belt just
breaking in two. Cost me about $800 (the belt was about $70) to have
the belt replaced but the engine never quite ran the same and consumed
more gas (I don't think the tech got the four (2 intake, 2 exhaust)
overhead camshafts timed right). Otherwise I loved that car. Sincerely,

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