when you adjust valve. how do you know cam gears are facing right or left side? when the arrow is facing up, TDC mark line up face to face. but when arrow is facing left or right, how do you know 100% sure its even..

 

on the crank there is a white mark, match it up with the lower timing belt cover

check out this image
http://www.c-speedracing.com/h...1.jpg

 

ya i have helm manual too.. my question is when arrows on cam gear is facing left and right side.

 

This doesn't really make sense. Are you trying to adjust your valves? If so I assume you are trying to find out if your piston in the cylinder that you are trying to adjust the valves is at TDC. One way to find out is to remove the spark plug for that particular cylinder and put a long screwdriver down the hole, then hand turn the crank and you can see when the screwdriver reaches its peak then you are at TDC, just make sure you are on the compression stroke so adjust your valves in the correct firing order to make it easier.

 

ah..is that the only way? sound hard.lol and ya i just wanna know, how do i know arrows are facing even.

 

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?? Um...you look at them? You do realize you have to take off the valve cover to adjust your valves and you can look at the arrows. I'm pretty sure there is a diagram in the Acura Service Manual for this. Oh, and if the arrows on the cam gears are pointing straight up, that's TDC for Cyl 1 only, beyond that I've never looked at them for doing valve adjustments.

 

Dont let this happen to you.

 

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WTF!?

 

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Thanks for the nasty pic - WTF is that?

 

He got it caught in cam gears...

 

how the hell do you get your finger caught in the cam gears....i mean damn

 

reminds me of this:

http://www.bofunk.com/video/77....html

-- a guy gets sucked into a jet engine - and lived.

 

no iam not adjusting cam gears...

any clear answer?? its my 1st time and i dont wanna **** it up.

 

like everyone has said already, look at the gears while you are turning the crank. If you make sure you turn the crank exactly 180* each time you will be good to go.

 

lol..man. i dont think i can do this by myself... iam too picky. some pics of action plz?

 

Here you go.

http://www.c-speedracing.com/h...t.php

 

This is a valve lash adjustment correct? If so you don't have to have each cylinder at exactly TDC. The important thing is that you do the adjustment with all valves CLOSED. It can be a few degrees before or after TDC and it will be fine.

Just make sure before adjusting the valve lash on each cylinder that the cam lobes are pointing up and away from each rocker arm. So for the intake valves, look to see that the cam lobes point up and to the rear of the car. On exhaust, make sure the lobes point up and towards the front of the car. This means all valves are closed and you can properly adjust valve lash for that cylinder.