I've got a 99 escort ZX2 on the back of my tow truck that I picked up at a repair station and was told that the timing belt broke and needs to be replaced. DUH, but was also told that there may be possible internal damage to the valves? Do these cars have a non clearance or a clearance type engine? If they are non clearance then I don't want to waste my time digging into it to fix a timing belt when I will need to work on the whole top end too. Look forward to hearing from someone about this? Thanks, toyo03

 

Howdy , well I cant tell about weather its an interfearance motor or not, you can go this web site an look it up WWW.autozone.com/servlet/UiBroker, it will give you a complete online repair manual,,, Also there --56 Techincal Service Bullten's on this vechile , 2 of them deal with timing belt breakage an or shredding, if you ever need to check a vechile fot TSB heres a quick website , WWW-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/tsb/, hope these help, an good luck