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woitw1
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May 18, 2006, 4:57 PM
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bent valves?
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87' ford escort gt ,1.9 liter non-interference?
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DanD
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May 19, 2006, 3:38 AM
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Yes these engines are an interference engine and if the timing belt jumps, breaks or for whatever reason the engine goes out of time there is a 90% chance that the valves will become bent from hitting the pistons. I’ve seen in a few cases that after a timing belt has failed and the valves bent it also cracked the cylinder head; those were on the 1.6Lt.
After that being said; there is still a 10% chance that the valve are not bent but you would have to have the whole horse up your arss not just his shoe to be that lucky.
Dan.
Here are a couple of the cautions on this engine from a service manual.
Canadian "EH"
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