On Jun 6, 7:35*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
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Tmning chains seldom wear out, seldom break, and seldom cause your
valves to turn into interesting forms of dramatic scuplture.

Belts on the other hand...shrug..thats what they generally do if you
dont replace them regularly. *With some effort, cost and down time.

Gunner

I've lost the belt on a Civic and the chain tensioner idler on a
CB350. In both cases there was no significant damage to the rest of
the engine.

A year ago I replaced the timing belt on the 91 Ranger and knocked
loose at least one well-concealed electrical connector plus sucked
some air into the valve lifters by turning the camshaft backwards
slightly. Getting it going again took probably three days work, spread
over a year and including machining more custom tools and parts. A
helpful mechanic with access to a paid site printed out a wiring
schematic that was much more useful than the one in my Ford shop
manual since it wasn't spread across a dozen pages and cluttered with
all possible options.

jsw