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Is the engine on the Mazda Tribute GXi "safe" or not?
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 27/10/2007 at 21:38
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By which I guess he means is it an interference engine or not. ie will the valves hit the pistons in the event of t/belt failure.
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I found this Gates american site, if it's of any use:- www.familycar.com/CarCare/GatesFrame.htm
Someone may look it up for you in an Autodata belt book.
However, the Gates site said my engine was non-interference, whereas the Autodata book said it was interference - I changed the belt.
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maybe it depends on the time in the month then? whether its safe?
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Unless I'm much mistaken this is the old Ford 2.0 engine - in which case it is an interference engine (not safe!).
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Thanks Aprilia, but I've looked in the Pdf doc in the site given above (familycar.com) about Timing belt information and according to them it is a non-interference engine, "free running" they call it.
Would the engine give any warning before the belt snaps?
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You can't trust the books anyway all of the time.
The Autodata one had mine down as "damage may be caused" whereas in fact it is non-interference. I emailed them, they confirmed with Mazda and the next years was corrected.
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Thanks, that's interesting, I'll contact Mazda but last time I did I waited for ages and then nothing, will persevere, do these companies have a special email addy for technical questions?
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