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Nothing performance related. Just had a few things disabled on the throttle body as I’ve been hunting down a vacuum leak. Nothing that affected the internal mechanics of the engine.
Quoted From cb7ftw:
Good news. Was talking to a Honda mechanic, and he said, he has yet to have a customer with a bent valve when their timing belt broke. If you where running mods that gave you high compression, then you would most likely bend a valve. Keep us posted.
Update: Took the valve cover off, the exhaust side was absolutely caked with rock hard sludge. I scraped most out with a putty knife. Also, definitely no timing belt visible.
A friend of mine says I should just pull the head now and look, but no breaker bar or torque wrenches in my tools.
i dont care what anybody says,,but this is a interference engine….when you cranked it over like you said-dont know if people forgot that sentence…but you bent valves at that momment……do recomend that you install belt first like eric stated,,i could be wrong…
i’ve always heard that when the timing belt breaks, the engine is toast, but my friend’s timing belt broke while driving his nissan quest. He tried to start it without success. Anyway, he towed it to a mechanic and everything was fine. Changed the belt and it worked like a charm. He considered this a blessing.
I may just see if I can find someone who does house-calls to repair this. I don’t see how I’m going to get the crank bolt off without an impact gun and/or some way of stopping the engine from cranking. The crank pulley doesn’t seem to have any holes or slots in it to put a bolt through to lock it in place.
You could see in an auto parts store will loan you out a electric impact and Eric’s timing belt video would be well worth the money.
There is also other ways of preventing the engine rotating if using a breaker bar to remove the crank pulley bolt.
Quoted From pcmdjason:
Well I figured at $18 for a belt that sounds a lot better than a new car. However I priced some junk yard heads and found them in the $150 range so that’s not a big problem.
I can’t remember did Eric do a video on timing belts for this car?
For $18 that is definitely not a Honda’s belt. There’s 2 belts, the timing belt, and the balancer belt. The timing belt should be around $45 and the balancer belt is around $35. So $18 is an after market. Don’t forget, your belt just broke. Are you going to risk it again? Come on Dude, I know it’s your Mom’s car but let’s get it right.
Couple things. You are going to pay out the ying-yang to have a guy come to yer house to service yer timing belt in yer driveway. You can get an electric (corded) impact from HF for like $30 or $40, and I’m sure you can pick up a breaker bar cheap as well. Otherwise, you are better having it towed to a shop, or selling the car on craigslist and putting that money towards another vehicle if you can’t do the job yourself. I’ve talked to a couple folks that have had those mobile-mechanics come to their house, and the cost always seems to be more than having it towed to a good shop.
yea man agreed its not as bad as it seems there is a honda crankshaft holding tool you can borrow from autozone or buy one either way just take your time make sure everything it top dead center and you will be golden f paying someone else to do it thats the hole reason your here because you want to do it yourself and ware tired of paying someone. good luck man you can do it keep us updated
You will never get that bolt loose with an impact you WILL need the crank holding tool, without it and a breaker bar with a pipe it’s not coming off however once you get past that hurdle the job isn’t so bad, the $11 video I have WILL walk you through step by step, bolt by bolt if you decide to go that rout.
eric is not lying about getting that bolt off,,,youtube it=people tried massive impacts and will not budge,,,i purchased erics video and changed mine…its real simple,,,the second one i changed i did in 1 1/2 hours,,,,
Update : Nothing done in the last week, have been busy with some other things. I have seen the hex tool to hold the pulley but have not seen it on the Autozone site that it is available for loan. Actually I so far haven’t found anyone locally that sells it. I have a breaker bar and a piece of fence pipe now.
Question about Eric’s video. What file formats is it available in?
[url=http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/cranktool/index.html:mwulpwbs]http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/cranktool/index.html
W[/url]hat do you think?
RE: The making of your own tool.
There is a link on the ‘Tools’ page of this website for the tool just click on it’s picture, last I looked it was about $30 and in my opinion is the best way to break the bolt loose. The videos are available in .wmv and .mov formats you just choose at the time of purchase what format you want.
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