On 10/26/2017 5:25 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 11:48:41 AM UTC-10, Casa de los peregrinos wrote:
>>
>> It's not a bad thing to be able to fix your own car and frankly Fiats
>> were not that hard to work on.
>>
>> Having to do so is another thing.
>
> Most of those late 60's cars are going to be easy to work on. The main trouble spot on the 124 was the timing belt for the twin cam engine. That was easier to replace than the timing chains on most other OHC engines of the era.
>


Was it a mandatory water pump swap too, as most are?

I am just totally a timing chain guy.

So much more reliable.

Never really heard of one being prone to breakage either...