Date:         Sun, 13 May 2001 11:36:51 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Subject:      Re: good things to have...?
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>Oh yea Andrew?
>Subaru powered Vanagon Eh ?
>What will you be doing when your timing belt turns to Jello?
>
>The same thing, anyone else would be doing --------sitting on the side
>of the road DOA.

A different kettle of fish entirely! We're talking about unexpected
breakdowns, I thought. Cambelts are  regular maintenance items, like oil &
filters.

Change your cambelt at recommended intervals and this should never happen.
Cambelts are not failure-prone, and our 3 diesel Toyotas with belt-driven
cams have done 1,200,000km (750 000mi) between them. The only failure was
when we forgot to change a belt (and that was OUR fault), and that broke at
way over the 120,000km recommended changepoint.


Andrew Grebneff
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