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Sent to Car Experts March 05, 2006 9:21 p.m.

what are the symptoms of a timing belt breaking? i'm not sure how to check mine without tearing the engine apart. i have a 97 dodge intrepid.
thanks, louann

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1997 Dodge intrepid 3.5L

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found i have spark, fuel pump working, injectors giving gas battery new,

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March 05, 2006 9:26 p.m. (5 minutes and 13 seconds later)

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hi thank you for the question hope this helps

if your timing belt is broken you car would not start. you would here a grinding or rubbing on the front of the engine

the engine would crank over but not start

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Sent March 05, 2006 9:31 p.m. (4 minutes and 24 seconds later)

there is no grinding noise, we have spark and fuel to injectors, battery cranks, but engine doesn't start

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March 05, 2006 9:53 p.m. (22 minutes and 31 seconds later)

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Sent March 06, 2006 6:08 p.m. (20 hours and 14 minutes later)

we will have to check for top dead center tom. mar 7 th and i'll let you know.
thanks for now

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Sent March 07, 2006 6:44 p.m. (1 day and 0 hours later)

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we have spark and gas, but we found out when looking at the engine the left cam is misaligned by one notch, does this really make a difference? it's one notch before dead center. we also felt that there is no air suction but don't know how to really check that

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March 07, 2006 9:50 p.m. (3 hours and 5 minutes later)

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Sent March 09, 2006 8:20 a.m. (1 day and 10 hours later)

Relist: I still need help.
no, the car won't start at all, we decided to change the belt anyway, and it feels like it's getting no suction air at the manifold intake

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Sent March 17 7:31 p.m. (739 days and 11 hours later)

this has nothing to do with my question about real estate

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