Can't understand this, putting the timing and balancer belts on after my timing belt snapped the other day. Following all the procedures on how to tension the belts but when I get to the part of rotating the crank to tension the timing belt, the belt jumps a tooth on the rear camshaft. What's going on? any help.....

 

line all your marks up, put the belt on, adjust tensioner to take excess slack out of belt, rotate a few times, re-tension to full tension and recheck marks, turn a few more times and doublecheck.

 

why do you need to rotate it to tighten it? I just levered the tensioner and tightened the bolt..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by shutta &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">why do you need to rotate it to tighten it? I just levered the tensioner and tightened the bolt..</TD></TR></TABLE>

you rotate it to take the slack out of it

 

no need fellas, got everything put back together and the bitch won't start. Talked to some honda techs at the dealer and they told me that the only way that belt coulda snapped on my motor was bent or busted valves, hence the no starting now. I bought the car used with 133k miles, had 155k when the belt broke. Don't have any records of it being changed but the belt looked goog to me when i replaced a leaking valve cover gasket a few months back. Gonna take the head off and take it to a machinist next week. Thanks for the help anyways