Guys, I'll be replacing my 98 civic dizzy O-ring today and was wondering if I'm gonna set the timing back over.

My dizzy top bolt is set all the way forward. I think that's what advanced means.

Anyway I see people on youtube center it and leave it there. Since mine is all the forward. Should I center it to get the bolt in and then advance to where it was?

 

Mark it with a sharpie and put it back the same way....line up sharpie points...all should be good.

 

Yea, just mark it and set it back the way it was. Otherwise, you're gonna have to break out a timing light and an external tach and hope you can find a place dark enough to read the timing marks.

 

Personally, if you've never done one before and the car was once previously owned.... i'd do an ignition timing just to make sure it is right. Can never be to safe. Just my two cents.

 

It's been mine since 2007. My brother was the one drivivng it before the dizzy crapped in late 2008. He bought a replacement (the one I posted) and I think a mechanic put it in. He drove it from 2009 up to 2011 withno timing issue.

I looked at a old pic from 2008 and it seems to be all the way foward too. So..I might just do as other said.

Thanks though.