Hi all,
I've got a 2005 Escape and think the timing chain broke or skipped time. I got the valve cover off, exposing the camshafts, and was working to get the engine set to TDC. I had tried to put the metal bar into the slots on the end of the camshafts to make sure they were aligned, but I could never get them to line up(engine jumped time?). I accidentally left the metal bar in the slot on one of the camshafts while I tried to remove the crankshaft pulley and ended up cracking the end off of one of the camshafts. (The tool holding the pulley slipped off when I was trying to remove the pulley bolt and so all the resistance came from that bar in the camshaft groove and it broke).

Will that cause any issues if I leave that camshaft in there? Will it be unbalanced or do those camshafts not spin very fast? I've attached a photo with the cracked camshaft circled. Sorry the camshaft was rotated wrong to get a better view of the cracked off part.

Thanks!