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Thoughts? Looks off by a click but bifocals can play tricks on depth perceptions. What would make it move ? It was dead on and I used the Honda crank tool to set the harmonic balancer and crank bolt. I didn't see it walk. Do I really need a new tensioner / belt to get it realigned?
I usually find it easiest to set the cam at TDC then look at the crank alignment. Appears to be off a tooth based on the pictures. If you just replaced the belt/tensioner, you can reuse.
That is aligned no tensioner Looks rite to me Off? The key doesnt line up though. Car is getting ready to participate in a viking burial. And yes the oil pump mark is spot on.
Install timing belt, do the rotation thing, figure the timing marks are "close enough". Start car, hard starting and ran like **** with no codes. Drove around with noticeable lack of power and warm fuzzy driving it down the street. Park car in driveway, recheck timing. Marks was off from the indicator on the timing belt cover by about the width of a cam gear.. nub.. Set block to TDC, took it apart, carefully adjusted cam gear to proper TDC (read long *** breaker bar to have better control of the torque applied), reinstalled timing belt, spinny spinny on the crank, checked timing marks. Rinsed and repeated 3 times out of paranoia. Pulling grenade pine was involved somewhere in there. Everything checked out. Started it up and she purred like a kitten.
I worked all night on it literally. Runs worse now. Question; after 2 rotations of the oil pump gear and alignment with the arrow on the block. The camshaft marks are close but never spot on. So then I put the balancer on and that is off as well as far as it aligning with timing belt cover sight V. Shouldn't the oil gear mark camshaft marks and the balancer mark all be TDC?
You should be using the timing mark on the timing belt pulley and block for TDC.
Line the camshaft up at TDC as close as you can, then get pictures of these marks at the crank. If they line up, maybe faulty crankshaft position sensor.
I've been sick for the last few days, sorry about that. Actually stayed home from work (I'm a dispatch team/office manager for a dispatch/call center that works with a bunch of law enforcement across the US and Italy) because of TMI reasons
Honestly, stick a dowel down #1 cylinder's spark plug hole (I use a sacrificed plastic hanger that I cut the bottom rod out of). Rotate the crank pulley twice and stop it when the dowel is at the height of it's travel, then compare to the cam gear position, then verify with the crank pulley. That way, you have visual of when the block is at TDC
Honestly, stick a dowel down #1 cylinder's spark plug hole (I use a sacrificed plastic hanger that I cut the bottom rod out of). Rotate the crank pulley twice and stop it when the dowel is at the height of it's travel, then compare to the cam gear position, then verify with the crank pulley. That way, you have visual of when the block is at TDC
a long screwdriver could work without sacrificing a hanger
How far off does this look?
All I did was rotate the crank until the timing mark lined up with the cover sight and to be honest depending on which way you turn your head it does or doesn't. I have been sick as well but I think I am over the sinus allergy crap. To me it doesnt look perfect ,close maybe, but not perfect. I havent sacrifice a hanger yet.
How far off does this look?
All I did was rotate the crank until the timing mark lined up with the cover sight and to be honest depending on which way you turn your head it does or doesn't. I have been sick as well but I think I am over the sinus allergy crap. To me it doesnt look perfect ,close maybe, but not perfect. I havent sacrifice a hanger yet.
Cam sensor isn't reading correctly. I get a slight volt drop less than .5v and then it comes back up to 12.5 v
Eng is TDC According to a hanger and all the marks line up.
Might be the sensor? Fire the bish up and see if she throws a P1361/1362/P034x code
especially now that you did the hanger check, I still say send it.
send what? I am not getting any codes just dashboard lights. The youtube videos on multimeter test of the magnetic sensors just has me chasing my tail and nothing seems definitive. I got all sorts of readings and I actually got nothing at the crankshaft but the multimeter I am using is a bit blinky. So I am just going to replace the 2 sensors with high quality Duralast product, better than Denso!, so I heard. Ill keep you posted.
Don't mind me being a dumbass with military/gun world-inspired slang. "Send it" in this case means "if everything is buttoned up, plugged in, and otherwise ready to start the engine, turn that key and see if she purrs"
Don't mind me being a dumbass with military/gun world-inspired slang. "Send it" in this case means "if everything is buttoned up, plugged in, and otherwise ready to start the engine, turn that key and see if she purrs"
