"Forrest" <REMOVETHISrunforrest1@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:mV03j.27638$Pv2.25295@newssvr23.news.prodigy. net:

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> "Tegger" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
> news:Xns99F55EC85B2A8tegger@207.14.116.130...
>> "Forrest" <REMOVETHISrunforrest1@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:kaS2j.65917$RX.22722@newssvr11.news.prodigy.n et:
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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.
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>> Your TDC is the "zero" mark on the retard side past the group of
>> three. The
>> key here is that the TDC mark is all by itself on the flywheel, no
>> matter what it actually looks like.
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> Well, missed it again. I didn't have a white mark, so thought that one
> of the marks on the retard side of the zero might have been white 18
> years ago



If the red one is still red, the white one would have still been white.
When one goes the other disappears at the same time.

The paint normally disappears on cars where the marks are on the exposed
crank pulley, not the ones where the marks are on the relatively well-
protected flywheel.



> and used that one. At least it's running better than it was
> when it was too far the other way. The distributor would only go so
> far and ended up being set a degree or so BTDC. I need a new lower
> timing belt cover and the local Honda dealer has to order it. He said
> it would take a couple of days. I'll go over there today and order it
> and hopefully the valves don't cook over the next few days.



Severely retarded timing will do more than cook your (expensive) exhaust
valves, it will destroy your (expensive) catalytic converter, maybe even
to the point of collapsing the (expensive) honeycomb inside and plugging
the exhaust.

I would strongly advise parking this thing permanently until you get the
belt sorted out. Limit your damage and your expenditures.


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Tegger

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