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Timing belt or timing chain? Ignore the wrong one and watch a $2,000 repair bill show up

Ask ten drivers what a timing belt does. You'll get eight shrugs, one "isn't that a serpentine thing?", and maybe one correct ...
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Timing Belt Vs. Timing Chain

What Does the Timing Belt or Timing Chain Do? On a conventional piston engine — which is found in virtually all modern passenger cars — the up-and-down motion of the pistons turn the crankshaft, and ...