timing chain

1993 OLDSMOBILE CIERA
89,000 MILES • 6 CYL • FWD
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I have a 1993 cutlass ciera s with the 3.3 L engine. It has 148000 Kilometres and I was wondering at what interval the timing chain should be changed
Nov 23, 2010 at 6:23 PM
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HMAC300
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this is goin gto sound stupid when it starts to give you troulbe like hard starting, making noise. or if it jumps an dyur car gets low on power.
Nov 23, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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Thanks for your response. Do you know what at what mileage GM recommends?
Nov 24, 2010 at 8:51 AM
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HMAC300
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there really is no mileage reccomendatin on this. I worked GM engineering for many years and even then it was only replaced if it was needed, like making noise or failed etc.
Nov 24, 2010 at 10:57 AM
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Ok thanks very much for your quick response
Nov 24, 2010 at 11:56 AM
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