I want to take off the head of my d16y8 to replace the seals and everything. Question is that can I just simply mark the teeth of the timing belt with the teeth on the cam, slide the belt off than proceed to take the head off. Then when I'm all done, I'll just put the head back on proceed to slide the timing belt back on making sure it lines up with the marks that I made on the cam and everything should be okay? I'm basically trying to avoid taking more time trying to put the timing belt back on since I'm going to attempt this in a very little time span that I'll have.

 

i'd go ahead and replace the T-belt.. ..here's a thread on it
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=649277

 

The belts been replaced already. I just want to know if this method would be okay to do.

 

oh well yes as long as your in TIME when everything goes back together and your at TDC

 

I wouldn't try "sliding it" on and off. Loosen the tensioner to remove it, and then reinstall and tension it correctly.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Padawan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I wouldn't try "sliding it" on and off. Loosen the tensioner to remove it, and then reinstall and tension it correctly. </TD></TR></TABLE>x2 i failed to mention that good call

 

You wouldn't be able to take it off without loosening the timing belt anyways. The dowels in the head will force the head to lift straight off, while a tensioned timing belt won't allow that. You'd probably damage the head if you even tried.

Do it right. It takes only a few minutes to set the crank/cams and to tension the timing belt.

 

So I guess if I want to do i the right way, I would have to loosen tension in the tensioner, slide the belt off, pull the head off, then when done, put the head back on, make the sure the crank and cam are in tdc positions, than just tighten it back up and I shouldn't have to worry about anything else and she should run good? I'm kinda new at this and really want to learn here.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ThoseDarnKids &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You wouldn't be able to take it off without loosening the timing belt anyways. The dowels in the head will force the head to lift straight off, while a tensioned timing belt won't allow that. You'd probably damage the head if you even tried.

Do it right. It takes only a few minutes to set the crank/cams and to tension the timing belt.</TD></TR></TABLE>i don't think he was saying that.......but i've seen people slide them off without loosening the tensioner..thats not a good thing

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=649277

 

Oh, yeah. You're right. I misread.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Throwdown &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">but i've seen people slide them off without loosening the tensioner</TD></TR></TABLE>

I watched my friend did it on his Civic once.