If you can drive the car, the timing belt isn't broken. An engine will not start or run with a broken cam belt.
Maybe the timing belt broke.
If the engine runs at all, the timing belt is not "broke."
If you think your Timing Belt broke DO NOT try to crank your car, if you continue to crank you car with a severed timing belt you will cause more damage. The only way you can tell for sure if the timing belt broke is to remove the upper timing cover and inspect the belt. If you see a naked cam sprocket your timing belt has broken and you will most likely need a top end engine rebuild.
When you have the belt put back on correctly it will be back in time.
No, the engine will not run with a broken cam belt.
timing belts are fairly easy to fix ,you need the # on the belt to get the right replacement ,go to an auto body shop,they know how to do this job.
It has a timing belt. Mine broke after 140K miles.
If the timing belt went as in broke/stopped working, I don't think your engine would start. The timing belt controls the camshafts which actuate the intake and exhaust valves. Neons have an interferance engine if the timing belt broke you possibly have bent valves and the engine will spin over very fast and you will have no compression. That's probably not what you want to hear though. Cross your fingers.
if i remember correctly the 2001 still has an interference engine.....if your timing belt broke you surely pinged some valves.
if the timing belt is broke, then the car wont start. and u probably bent a bunch of valves.
As far as I know the 2.3 liter DOHC engine in a 2008 Ford Ranger has a timing CHAIN