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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech,rec.autos
- Subject: Timing belts revisted (Re: Ford Escort Problems)
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- Date: 14 Oct 92 19:44:41 GMT
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- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
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- In rec.autos, owen@Software.Mitel.COM (Blake Owen) writes:
-
- >I've personally only heard of the belts breaking in Fords
- >and Toyotas and someone on the net claimed Honda belts also break. Do
- >GM and Chrysler use a different system or type of belt? Any comments?
-
- Belts do break in Hondas, and in Subarus, Nissans, and any other car
- that uses them. Others have timing chains, and guess what? These can
- break, too, but usually this is after many more miles, which the older
- engines which used them generally never saw. So why did they switch
- to belts? Economy, ease of installation (for the factory), and less
- noise. The belts are also easier to change than chains.
-
- *All* timing belts should be changed at 60k. It is true that you might
- have heard of someone going 130k or more on one belt, but these are
- more exceptions than the rule. Generally they break more around the
- 80k mark, as I can personally attest to of the three that did so in
- the last eight months at 75k, 78k, and 96k. (The 96k was a Toyota Celica
- with a low-horse-power engine, which seems to be easy on belts, and
- was driven primarily on the highway) Oh, and a word of warning to those
- with a 2.0L Eclipse/Talon/Laser engine, turbo or non. These have been
- reported to break as early as 20k, depending on your driving habits,
- due to an idler pulley that is a bit too small and creates extra tension
- in the belt.
-
- Ron Think about this one (seen on a bumper sticker):
- The road to hell is bumper-to-bumper
- Make a U-turn to God.
- The irony is priceless.
-