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The timing belt broke how do you set the timing on a 95 ford contour 2.0 zetec?
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Piston #1 (passenger side) to Top Dead Center (TDC). You have to remove the valve cover. On the end of the cam shafts (driver side) there is a groove (line) cut into them. This line should matchacross the top of the head. I use an old carpenters square, lay it across the head and align the cam grooves till the square falls into the grooves. Put the belt on it and it should be in time. You may have to loosen the cam sprocket bolts (passenger side, Torx) to get the belt to line up perfectly, but it should not need to be extremely accurate. Tighten the tension pulley. Spin the engine around twice or trice, then re check tension.
CAUTION: the 2.0L engine is an interference motor, if the belt breaks or the engine spins with the cams out of alignment the pistons can come up and hit and bend or break the valves!! Also all three idler pulleys should be replaced when changing the timing belt, i did this the hard way and had to do the whole thing again after two weeks, fortunately i didn't hurt the valves.
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