A Toyota vista was in motion and suddenly stopped when we checked we found that timing belt was broken n the engine only turns three quarter in either way ,what could be the problem?.

SOURCE: ENGINE WONT TURN OVER

sounds like the timing belt it has a interference engine so if the timing belt broke you could have bent rods and cracked pistons or worse. good luck

SOURCE: engine timing marks for toyota landcruiser 1KZ-TE

The separated gears are turned in opposite direction to each other untill the locking holes align.
It needs abit of force to align the holes,then lock the holes with M6 bolt.

Jeffery Lewis

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• Posted on May 29, 2009

SOURCE: TIMING BELT MARKS DONT MATCH AFTER ENGINE TURNED OVER

dont worry about that you will have to turn the motor over 40 to 50 time before those timing belt marks line up again if your pulley marks line up correctly thats all you have to worry about

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More than likely you have some bent valves which can lead to alot of money to fix. If you can do it yourself try to find a wrecked one or one with a bad bottom end and just get there cylinder heads and put on your motor with a new timing belt.

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Hi, once you have the check engine light/alarm on any car, you must have the engine CPU scanned first for trouble code's before proceeding to repair irrespective of any sign or damage on the car. This can only be administered with the assistance of a diagnostic computer (OBD-II) scan tool. You can purchase this tool, at your local auto parts store, or you can just have the scan ran at yourlocal auto zone parts store, free of charge. Once the diagnostic scan is administered, you will be able to isolate the issues that have caused the check engine alarm/light to illuminate.
This scan tool will display a print out code and the location of the issue, on the engine, as well. There are Many issues that will cause the engine alarm/light to illuminate.
Most times the check engine alarm/light comes up, it has to do with the engine itself but you can only isolate the main part of the faulty engine by using the scan tool or else you will keep on guessing.