Hey guys, i own a 1995 SOHC non-vtec EG (auto) a few months back my timing belt snapped and i had my car towed to the mechanics for it to be fixed, just after getting it back, my car pinged heaps, i tryed to set the timing and it was way off and could not be aligned to the correct marks, i suspected the valve timing was out..

I finally checked my valve timing today. When at TDC, the cam pulley was not lined up! my timing belt was out a tooth as suspected. The mechanic had lined up the belt according to the timing mark instead of the TDC mark. I moved the belt a tooth over, but its still out about half a tooth?!?! If i move it over another tooth it would be out half a tooth the other way! its strange, it is a honda belt they put in, wether its for my model civic i dont know.

Also, when i was doing my timing after i put it all back together, in the manual it says to bridge a 2-connector terminal near the ECU in the kicker panel, but the book said to do it with diff coloured wires to what i actually have, hope i did it correctly, if someone can give us a hand with this it would be a huge help, i could find 2 connector terminals, one was a 3-connector the other a 2-connector, so i did the 2-connector. The timing was way off and the dizzy cant adjust anymore, it runs out of room before the timing marks can line up perfectly (the dizzy only has a little room for retarding/advancing)

After doing all this, i took my car for a bit of a test drive, it seems to have improved a fair bit and i hadnt heard any pinging. I went up a bit of a hill to put it under a bit of load and drove it fairly hard and under the pressure it started pinging again, was fine afterwards though when it was under less load.

So basically it has improved greatly, but not 100%, if anyone has any help for me on why my belt would be out half a tooth, how to fix it or any advice on how to correctly do my timing please help!!!!

Thanks in advance
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