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This is a lengthy procedure. Changing the belt itself is not the hard part, but ensuring you don't mess up your timing is. Incorrect timing on your timing belt can RUIN your engine by bending valves, indenting pistons and other nasty things. Another note, NEVER turn the crankshaft or camshaft pullies opposite of their operational direction as it will mess up your timing (this becomes difficult when loosening the crankshaft pully as you have to turn the bolt left without letting the pully slip and rotate counter-clockwise). Okay, with warnings out of the way:

1. Rotate your crankshaft pully until the notch on it lines up with the TDC mark on the plastic timing belt cover 2. Break the bolt on you crankshaft pully loos without allowing the pully to rotate (crankshaft pully is the far bottom pully) 3. Loosen the bolts on the water pump pully (middle pulley that has two belts on it) 4. Remove your drive and accesory belts (two exposed belts on the front of the engine) 5. remove the water pump pully 6. remove the crankshaft pully 7. remove the bolts from the plastic timing belt cover (big black plastic cover on front of engine) and remove the cover ** now the belt you are looking at is your timing belt ** all three gears that it goes around have positioning marks on them so that you can make sure that you keep them in the same place when putting the new belt on. It only takes ONE gear tooth off to seriously degrade engine performance. Note the position of each pully (the distributor pully turns easily and can secretly slip out of time without you noticing) 8. loosen (not remove) the attaching bolt on the timing belt tensioner (little cylinder about in the middle of the timing belt path, no gear teath on it), pry the tensioner out and retighten the bolt (this will give you the necessary slack to remove the belt) 9. Now simply pull the belt off (remember that however hard you have to pull to get this belt off, you will have to push harder to get the new one on. If you have to pull too hard, repeat step 8 and pry the tensioner out further) 10. installation is the reverse of removal

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The warning about ruining your engine is absolutely correct on what is known as an interference engine. This is why you should always change your timing belt at an acceptable mileage. Break a belt while driving a Honda and you've just bent some valves.

The Ford 2.3L is a non-interference engine and damage will most likely not occur. All the timing belt books will say "most likely" but I've replaced several belts on these engines after they've broken and never had a problem.

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