Uhh Oh! I think I kinda fukced up the timing belt job!

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Feb 20, 2003 | 09:49 AM

JiggaFan

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Uhh Oh! I think I kinda fukced up the timing belt job!

'97 Accord EX 5-spd Sedan

I left this 10mm "service bolt" in the timing belt tensioner assembly! (The white bolt just to the left of the center of the page.)

The guy on that page quotes:

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Make sure that you remove this bolt after you install the balance shaft's belt and tighten the main Tensioner's adjustment NUT (highlighted with red square). Otherwise no one will be able to adjust the cam timing belt tension in the future. I did this once and had to remove the timing belt cover, to get back in. What a pain in the old butt!

Apparently, the hole should've been left empty like this:

So I guess my question is:

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What affects does an improperly tensioned timing belt have on the engine in 100 miles? 1000 miles?

I should be able to get this taken care of either tonight or tomorrow. But the car might also be a tad bit off line. I lined up the crank shaft, front balance shaft, rear balance shaft on the balancer belt. But I have a feeling that I didn't line the cam shaft sprocket up with the crankshaft sprocket correctly.

The camshaft could be off just a tooth. We knew the "Up" had to be slightly between 12:00 and 1:00, but we didn't use the timing belt cover as a guide the way the article tells you to.

Just in case you all haven't looked at this article yet:
http://www.cybertrails.com/~puf/Hond...meBalNote.html

[Modified by JiggaFan, 6:50 PM 2/20/2003]