If you find out that your car needs its timing chain replaced, then you should be prepared to spend close to $1,000, depending on your application. Drive Cave notes that the timing chain typically costs around $100, but the labor to replace it can cost anywhere between $400 and $1,000. While you can’t see the timing chain inside your engine 100 miles before they break. Normally, timing chains are designed to last the life of the car and the rest of the engine. But, the life of the engine is sometimes defined by pistons and valves running into each other when the timing chain breaks. Another failure mode of a timing chain is stretching. That causes the chain to come off the cogs. yWNMqoD.

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