It depends on the Kia engine. Sephia and Rio engines are indeed an interference design and breaking the timing belt will damage the engine.
The Sportage DOHC engine is in fact a non-interference engine. I have personally confirmed this with an experienced Kia technician plus I have documented proof at
http://www.4x4wire.com where numerous owners of DOHC Sportages have broken a timing belt and installed a new belt and NO damage occurred. Their engines ran fine afterwards.
And if you examine the Sportage shop manual you can infer that the engine is a non-interference design although it doesn't state it. The procedures in the shop manual allow you to independently turn the camshafts and crankshaft while the timing belt is OFF to line up the timing marks. If the engine were an interference design you could NOT do this.
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Originally posted by 1fastkia@Dec 23 2004, 05:09 AM
well I am going to have to disagree with that. If the timing belt goes on sportage, sephia, spectra or rio you WILL do engine damge. see these kia motors are interference. what that means is
In an interference engine when the belt or timing chain fails, the valves and pistons hit each other and that can cause some problems. An even worse situation would be to bend the connecting rod ). That would create a real expensive engine job.
so I hope your belt didnt break maybe just skipped a tooth or 2 to make timing way off. that would be one cause of it not starting. hope this helps.
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