Mastercraft
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Does 2017 R29 D4-300 have a timing chain (not belt) that is designed to last life of engine. ChatGPT says timing chain and engine will last at least 4,000 hours. Comments?
My engine has been a used 1,200 hours at an average of 10 knots.
My engine is D4-300 and there were very few of them put in 2017. Most were smaller, D4-260? So do I just keep cruising and hope that I have fun and no bad timing chain days. I have had two bad timing chain days in vehicles, yet both times the engine survived due to 1970's American steel engines that weren't zero valve clearance. One failure was at 60 mph. I am all for foreign engines until it's a bad timing chain. Does the D4-300 have zero valve clearance?
My engine has been a used 1,200 hours at an average of 10 knots.
My engine is D4-300 and there were very few of them put in 2017. Most were smaller, D4-260? So do I just keep cruising and hope that I have fun and no bad timing chain days. I have had two bad timing chain days in vehicles, yet both times the engine survived due to 1970's American steel engines that weren't zero valve clearance. One failure was at 60 mph. I am all for foreign engines until it's a bad timing chain. Does the D4-300 have zero valve clearance?