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brulaz
Apr 26, 2018Explorer
parker.rowe wrote:
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Chains rarely break, although they do stretch and throw the timing off. Very occasionally they may jump a tooth.
Or the chain guides self-destruct and the eventually chain wraps around the shaft ... like what could have happened with my 2006 Passat TDI I4. Luckily later models replaced the chain with gears and VW made a replacement kit available. When mine was opened up for the swap, pieces of one of the chain guides fell out.
Think my Cummins I6 uses gears as well, but the little Cummins V8 diesel has chains running all over. Ugh.
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