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Subject:Re: Timing Belt...
From:Mark McCulley
Date:Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:15:39 -0800

At 12:26 AM 12/12/97 -0800, Alain Thibault wrote:
>Does somebody knows if timing belt needs to be changed every 100 000
>m.on the Vanagon. I have never seen a post on the subject yet...

All joking aside, the answer to your question Alain is there is no timing
belt on the 1.9l or 2.1l gasoline Vanagon engines--the drive train is driven
directly by gears. The diesel engine does have a timing belt, but I don't
think that's what you were asking about.

-Mark McCulley