'03 Grand Caravan Timing Belt

Feb 25, 2005 10 Replies
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New to this NG



Just bought a used '03 grand caravan, 3.3L engine. 28Kmiles.



Reading through the manual the other night (I had some spare time on my hands), I saw the recommendation for changing belts and such, including the timing belt on the 2.4 L engine...but I didn't see any such recommendation for the 3.3



Any recommendations out there? Or do these engines have timing chains like the Saturns?



Thanks for your help.



Regards,



Barry in C'ville-



Formerly a Saturn guy...until somebody decided to see what his GMC truck would look like in my trunk.


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That engine uses a timing chain

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K

including the

recommendation

The other posters are correct. The 3.3 uses a chain. I don't know what the life expectancy is for the 3.3's chain. My old Plymouth 273 went

200,000 miles on it's original chain.

-Kirk Matheson

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I recently changed the chain on our '96 3.3 at 160,000 miles. It was time, but it wasn't nearly as bad as some I've seen.

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Do keep your eye on the serpentine belt ... Regds

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recommendation

Tensioner

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Presumably you mean for the OP to keep an eye on the tensioner that is part of the front end accessory drive system, of which the serpentine multi-V belt is also a part...??...or do you mean the OP should replace it (the tensioner that is)?

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system for seizing up or going out of alignment... I wouldn't recommend replacing it if there was nothing wrong with it

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J

Well, you have to admit these one word sentences tend to drive folks around in ellipses.....

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I mean for him to read his manual and check the belt when the manual sez to check it. I am a friend guys, on my fifth Chrysler minivan since 1988, and I like them. Regds

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