Having a bad timing belt can make your exhaust discharge more smoke than normal. A bad timing belt can also cause issues with starting your engine. To avoid problems, timing belts should be changed every 60,000 miles.
how can you tell if a timing belt is bad
No. Only the cam belt effects timing.
Yes a timing belt can make it run bad the vale timing gould be off an the cam will be in re tard timing
The timing belt effects your camshaft timing, and in some engines your ignition timing (if the distributor or crank trigger runs off a pulley driven by your timing belt). Directly, your timing belt has no effect on your shifting. However, variances in camshaft timing will make your engine run differently and that MAY effect at what point the transmission shifts.
If I recall correctly. When a timing belt goes bad it just go...
NO! This has no effect on the timing belt.
Timing belt or chain may be bad.
No.
Your 94 S-10 doesn't have a timing belt.
Bad missfire and if ur car is hard to start then its a stretched timing belt.
Is it safe to drive my 2000 Mercury Mystique with a bad timing belt?
Do you mean a bad timing chain ? The 2.3 liter four cylinder engine in a 2005 Ford Escape has a timing CHAIN instead of a timing belt