02 sportage timing marks

mphillips81 · 08-09-2008, 06:04 PM

I have an 02 Sportage with a broken timing belt. I have completed the tear down, but can find no information on lining up timing marks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark

Sahdow · 08-16-2008, 01:37 AM

try kiatechinfo under the shop section they have manuals with illustrations.

kiaracer · 08-16-2008, 03:26 AM

there's two marks on the plate in back of the cam gears. line the "I" on the intake cam up to the arrow stamped into the plate and line the "E" on the exhaust cam up to the other arrow. that will line up the cams to TDC. there is also a notch on the crank that needs to be lined up with an arrow above the crank to get the crank to TDC.