97A4q Maintenance

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made LRGreger at aol.com say:

> I recently purchased a 97A4q 2.8 to replace my tired 88 80q.  In purusing the
> maintenance manual, I ran across a puzzling entry concerning the timing belt
> replacement.  It states that the timing belt should be replaced every 90,000
> miles, but appears to indicate that this maintenance is only required for "V6
> 2.8L 5 valve engine, A8 3.7 &4.2L engines".  Does this actually mean that the
> 2 valve 2.8L does not need to have its timing belt replaced?  Was the valve
> clearance problem fixed?

Not even remotely. And it's not a problem, it's the design
of most engines nowadays, so there's nothing to "fix".

The 12V V6 specs timing belt replacement at 60K. This was
boosted to 90K with the later 30V engines.

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