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Originally Posted by uHu
Consider this:
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You do it yourself, successfully, with no problems.
But the belt has a fault, and after two weeks you have a very expensive repair to carry out.
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You get the dealer to do it, for a fixed price, but not cheap. Any stripped bolt will be their problem.
The belt has a fault, and after two weeks the dealer will have to rebuild your engine, free of charge for you.
This is a consideration I will do during the next 10 k miles. That's when it's time to change the belt, although it's a diesel, and a straight six.
Someone around here had that problem, but with a non-OEM belt. He got the cost of the belt back.
Is it possible to check the belt thoroughly enough to know it won't fail? |
I agree. I've been wrenching my own vehicles for almost 30 years, but, with the precision of these new motors and the time it takes to do the job, this is one that I left to the dealer. I can spend 10 hours on this truck doing something fun and relatively meaningless, like electric mods, on-board air, or start building my sliders. The next immediate project is brakes, bearings and fluids.