Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:44:16 -0400 From: "Hyperdog" <hyperdognopsame.rr.com> Subject: Re: Timing Chain
To my knowledge all SAAB OHC engines are, and always were, "interference engines". Translation: thats why SAAB uses timing chains not belts. woof coxinga wrote in message <8btq12$ns4$1nopsam1.deja.com>... >A few years ago my Volvo 240 wagon snapped its timing belt on the >Pennsylvania Turnpike on an uphill incline doing 65. Despite being >holed up in the local motel for one night because the garage needed a >day to get a $20 timing belt to fix it in the middle of nowhere, >nothing else was wrong. There were no bent valves, cracked head, >punctured pistons, crooked crankshaft. Nothing. > >Can I say the same for my 94 SAAB 9000CS timing chain? > > >coxinga >-- >Coxinga/ The 17th century warlord, son of a pirate, who was bestowed >the last name of Ming emperors. He defeated the Dutch to capture >Formosa. A rare victory in the struggle against colonialism by the >East. It spelled the beginning of the end for the Dutch East India Co. > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy.