{"id":36690,"date":"2016-10-13T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=36690"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:29:43","slug":"timing-1998-dodge-intrepid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/10\/timing-1998-dodge-intrepid","title":{"rendered":"Timing 1998 Dodge Intrepid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30246\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2000-dodge-intrepid.jpg\" alt=\"2000 Dodge Intrepid\" width=\"598\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2000-dodge-intrepid.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2000-dodge-intrepid-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/>3.2 i was driving then i smelled burning wire followed by the car over heating and running hot i looked under the hood found a couple spots of wire that need to be fixed and it doesn&#8217;t wasn&#8217;t to start its trying to but its just not catching someone told me timing how do i check the timing chain with out taking the whole front end apart<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>If you feel the timing is the issue, a quick test I use is a compression test. 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