Glossary / General

timing chain

76 Episode Mentions

Too Afraid to Ask

A timing chain is a metal rope inside the engine that keeps everything running in sync and usually lasts many years.

Technical Definition

A timing chain is a metal belt that synchronizes the rotation of the engine’s camshaft and crankshaft, typically lasting longer than a timing belt.

Hear It Discussed

"did not have the proper tools to keep the timing chain from slipping and it slipped a couple of teeth"
One Make, One Decade with Maurice Merrick of Horsepower Heritage Bring a Trailer Podcast 09:20

"And it's like a Range Rover with a timing chain that's come off and it's, you know, just ruined."
Hoovie is Here! What is Mercedes Thinking? New Manual BMW M3! Gullwing Issues! THIS CAR POD! with Doug DeMuro & Friends! 02:38

"through those camshafts when you started the engine up you'd forced a timing chain to skip a tooth or two your interference engine would mash itself and that's it you've blown your engine up"
Great cars undone by one fatal flaw #319 The Intercooler 33:35