Re: Comments on 95 GLX Purchase

["Chris Warren" <tofer@foxinternet.net>]

What about the 4 cyl?
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> From: Christopher Morgan <cmorgan02@sprynet.com>
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: Re: Comments on 95 GLX Purchase
> Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 4:48 PM
> 
> 
> From: Jeffrey A. Campbell <jac@ch1.hfxcable.com>
> 
> 
> >On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Christopher Morgan wrote:
> >
> >> From: Jeffrey A. Campbell <jac@ch1.hfxcable.com>
> >> > Speaking of timing belts, what is the normal interval for the VR6
> >> >engine?
> >>
> >> Never.  VR6's don't use a timing belt, they have timing chains.
> >
> > And the interval on those?
> 
> Hopefully never.  The timing chain for the VR6's was designed with the
> durability needed for a diesel version, so I wouldn't be surprised if
they
> last for a couple hundred thousand miles in our gas cars.  It's a dual
stage
> chain; the crank sprocket drives the oil pump/intermediate spocket with
one
> chain and this in turn drives the camshaft sprockets with a second chain.
> AFAIK, changing the chain requires removing the trans, since the chain is
on
> the flywheel end of the engine instead of the serpentine belt end.
> 
> 
> -Chris