'03 Grand Caravan Timing Belt

New to this NG

Just bought a used '03 grand caravan, 3.3L engine. 28Kmiles.

Reading through the manual the other night (I had some spare time on my
hands), I saw the recommendation for changing belts and such, including the
timing belt on the 2.4 L engine...but I didn't see any such recommendation
for the 3.3

Any recommendations out there? Or do these engines have timing chains like
the Saturns?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Barry in C'ville-

Formerly a Saturn guy...until somebody decided to see what his GMC truck
would look like in my trunk.

 

That engine uses a timing chain

 

IIRC, chain drive top end.

 

The other posters are correct. The 3.3 uses a chain. I don't know what
the life expectancy is for the 3.3's chain. My old Plymouth 273 went
200,000 miles on it's original chain.

-Kirk Matheson

 

I recently changed the chain on our '96 3.3 at 160,000 miles. It was
time, but it wasn't nearly as bad as some I've seen.

 

Do keep your eye on the serpentine belt ... Regds

 

Tensioner

 

Presumably you mean for the OP to keep an eye on the tensioner that is part
of the front end accessory drive system, of which the serpentine multi-V
belt is also a part...??...or do you mean the OP should replace it (the
tensioner that is)?

 

system for seizing up or going out of alignment... I wouldn't recommend
replacing it if there was nothing wrong with it

 

Well, you have to admit these one word sentences tend to drive folks around
in ellipses.....

 

I mean for him to read his manual and check the belt when the manual
sez to check it. I am a friend guys, on my fifth Chrysler minivan
since 1988, and I like them. Regds