Ok, i know what im about to ask dosent' involve a F150 but it's driving me and my buddy up a wall...everything i have asked you guys the response as been excellent so i figured i'd see if you could help me out here....my buddy has a 1998 Kia Sportage it chewed a timing belt and now it's outta time..we need a diagram showing how to put it back in time and we cant find one anywhere online, they make no service manuals for these cars...so i didn't know if anyone new of any websites that could help us out..any help would be much appreciated...Thanks

 

Try ALLData.com - you have to join for that info. - Other than that, google search, search Images thru google.

Sometimes a auto supplier who deals in those parts as a specialty, will have that info on-line under support or tech info.

Good Luck.

 

Try here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KIA-S...spagenameZWDVW

Regards

Jean Marc Chartier

 

Interference engine buddy, either pull the head and get a valve job or junk the P.O.S. 95% of those that come in have bent 2 or more valves if the engine was running when the belt broke, sorry for the bad news.

 

Ok, thanks guys i will try this stuff out and let ya guys know how it goes....and yeah we heard about them doin in valves but he wants to try this before he sinks money into it or scraps it...

 

Sounds good, Good luck with it.

 

Well, we got the head off today, but we didn't remove the valves so he's just gonna send it to get machine work, he didn't wanna remove them cuz he was scared to damage anything so he's just gonna send it away, but from just looking at the head we really couln't tell if any valves were bent just by lookin through the holes....but thanks for the help and advice it made the progress alot quicker already

 

Sometimes if you pour some water on the valves through the ports they will leak if there is a bent valve, Sometimes they won't, but I try it everytime. Just send it to the machine shop & let 'em go.

 

Well i will tell him the water trick maybe we'll do it just to satisfy us to know if there was really a bent valve, but as far as i know he's just sendin it to the machine shop, we ripped her apart now let someone else put it back together haha

 

Let me know the progress, I'm curious.

 

i have the sorento and i'm dreading the day we have a belt break...replacing the damn thing every 6 months now.... lol

 

How do you like the Sorento? I was going to buy one...but I don't like SUVs.

 

correction (i got told this yesterday) it's NOT an SUV it's a CUV (my wife told me this all smart alecky too)

in snow it's not bad, matter of fact i give it props in the snow. haven't played with it in mud yet. daystar JUST came out with a 2" lift for it ( ..!.. yeah it's only 2 but it's only you use it)

overall: i like. the heated leather seats are nice, it's awesome to go camping in. only thing is at first we had a problem with like a pinhole in the upper intake and the kia place had to fix it. other than that it's awesome.

got procomp at's 265/75R16's right now (the largest for now) but with the 2" kit i might get 33's lol.