Mine timing belt has just broken, what can be the consequence?? What to do? Help please

 

take it apart and check for damage valves/piston etc.

 

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It depends on where everything happened to be when the timing belt broke. You might get lucky and be able to stick a timing belt on there and it might fire right up, or you might have bent some valves. My advice, get a timing belt and put it on. see how that goes, then if you have bent valves i'd either haul the engine out if its SOHC and drop in a low mileage JDM version, or if its a DOHC i'd consider taking the head off and investigating further.

 

+1 why would you go through the hassle of taking it apart if you can easily just put a new one on and see if it runs

 

My cousin was driving once and his timing belt snapped. He was lucky the belt broke when the valves were in a closed position or else the pistons would have upercut the valves. Best way to know is to take off the head. You can put on a new belt and see if it runs but you may or may not hear any noises, and may seem fine but you may have slightly bent valves. If you don't mind doing the timing belt twice then that's up to you. Good luck