"Tegger" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
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> "Forrest" <REMOVETHISrunforrest1@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:fXJ2j.65894$RX.32866@newssvr11.news.prodigy.n et:
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>> My timing belt broke on my 1989 Accord SEI. I guess it's a two liter
>> fuel injected. I managed to get it apart and get the new belt on. I
>> got lucky and didn't have any bent valves. The problem is figuring out
>> where TDC is, so as to be able to synchronize the cam and crank
>> shafts. I have three books and none of them show what the actual marks
>> look like. Looking through the little peep hole at them, I can see on
>> the advanced side about three hash marks, one of them red. Then as you
>> go to the retard side there is a (0) with no hash mark at all and then
>> farther over to the retard side is another mark or so. Why in hell
>> can't they just have TDC and a mark next to it? If it wasn't a solo
>> job I guess I could try the stick in the spark plug hole to find TDC.
>> I've never done that and am a little afraid of crunching it in the
>> cylinder.
>>
>> Anywhoooo ... I got it running, set the timing and took it for a drive
>> around the block and thought it was OK. I let my son drive it 90
>> miles to school and back this morning. He said that it didn't run
>> right, so I tried it out again. It runs like it's way under powered
>> and has a bogging down sound when you accelerate, as well as pinging.
>> I guess I'm probably a tooth off one way or the other. Any ideas or
>> thoughts on this? Which way too far and am I gonna burn the valves up.
>> Thanks in advance, for any and all responses.
>>
>>
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> There's a good chance the belt is off a tooth.
>
> It's too bad you didn't have the correct manual before installing the
> timing belt. The TDC mark is WHITE and is all alone on the flywheel. You
> needed to have the white mark lined up with the pointer, plus the cam
> pulley marks in the right place, before installing the timing belt.
>
> The red mark in the middle of the group of three is the mark that should
> show up next to the pointer when the timing light is activated and the
> timing is set correctly.
>
> Also you need to disconnect and plug the vacuum lines to the vacuum
> advance
> diaphragm when setting timing.
>
> If I were you, I'd start all over again with that belt.
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> Tegger
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Thanks for the reply ... My problem is that there is no WHITE mark. I see
the red mark on the advance side and then when it moves over to the retard
side I get a large space and then a, what looks like a zero, another space
and then two hash marks. After that it drops off into the abyss. The whole
surface disappears.