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- From: Cliff_Lum@mindlink.bc.ca (Cliff Lum)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: TOYOTA's timing belt
- Message-ID: <14586@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:34:11 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- > John Nall writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <10428@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- > Posted: 25 Aug 92 20:48:13 GMT
- >
- > Org. : SCRI, Florida State University
- >
- > In article <leonard.714663922@aix3090b.uky.edu> leonard@aix3090b.uky.edu
- > (Leonard Lauria) writes:
- > >what about the eclipse/talon/laser? free wheeling or not?
- >
- > Dunno. But since I read all these horror stories, I asked my
- > mechanic-adviser if it was something I needed to worry about
- > on the ol' Mercedes Benz. He smiled and said that not only
- > did the MB have a timing *chain*, but that it was a *double*
- > chain, so even if one broke, the other would still be there.
- >
- > So eat your livers, Toyota owners :-)
- >
- > John
- > (p.s. If you ever saw my old '77 MB, which cost me $1500, you'd
- > know why I'm smiling. I can't afford a Toyota!)
- >
-
- Hey, my 1982 TOYOTA COROLLA has a Double Roller Timing chain too!!! :)
- It also has a hemi-head and 4 into 2 into 1 exhaust system. All stock items
- too. :))
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