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I have a 2002 Chrysler town and country van. Does it have a timing belt or chain? When should it be replaced? If the timing belt goes will it take the engine with it?
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It is located inside the air conditioning hose where it connects to the evaporator, some are replaceable some you have to buy the whole hose when it goes bad.
On the tensioner there is a little square hole on the frount of it, that is for your 3/8 socket ,but use a breaker bar insert it into hole and turn it and you will see belt come loose,, get diagram of how it winds back on at the parts store you got the belt at.
most of the time the resistor is located downwind of the blower motor so it should be not to fao from the blower motor in the right rear of the van behind the quater trim panel which is the hvac unit is located
Sounds like the belt is worn out or the tenchiner pully is worn out so replace the belt and if it still does it then you will have to change the pully, but most of the time when this happens it is the belt so replace the belt and you should be good to go.
your engine does have a timing chain, these are very durable, there is no set maintenence interval for them. you can tell how much chain slack you have by gabbing your crankshaft pulley with both hands and rotating it back and forth to feel the chain tightening, it should be a minimul amount of rotation. you should get well over 200k mi. of service without worry. i hope this answers your questions, or at least sets your mind at ease.
Did you try inserting the key in the drivers side door and locking and unlocking it manually several times to reset the alarm system. This was the problem with my 1996 Chrysler Town & Country LXI
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