Since I will be replacing the 'drive belt/water pump combo',soon, with all the extra little parts,...is there a CHAIN as a replacement available? Instead of the rubber belt? I keep reading/hearing that most of the tensionors?, are mostly made of plastic, so of course they break/wear out fast.

And the water pump has a lot of plastic parts in it. Is that true? So it wears out to. I mean hopefully I wont have it another 60K miles, i still have only 34K on it at 9.5 years! BUT maybe some has made a better replacement 'kit' to do this job????

Its because they made these parts of plastic and rubber, instead of metal, that we ALL have to replace them so freaking soon! So I thought I would ask....has any company made an 'upgraded kit', and of course much more expensive ALL METAL kit, with the water pump, and a drive chain instead of a belt, metal tensionors? Does this make any sense to you all? Do you understand what I am asking?

Or is it just basically putting back in the same ****ty parts that will wear out again??? Like the coolant part that they redesigned after it blew up on me, and thousands of others, so and they thought to make the replacement part out of metal! DUH!! Not plastic again to put back in boiling hot coolant. So.does this all metal kit exist? Or is there a BEST kit out there that you can lead me to , to buy? Thanks.