idk if you have noticed the thread about my harmonic balancer falling completely off the car. and my timing belt was half slid off of the pulley. im guessing this is where it must have sleep. and after that, the timing belt was loose, and i had to tighten it. i cant get any of this done until the weekend. is it ok it i drive like this until then??

and ill try and look for another bottom lx timing belt cover. thanks for the help mk

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should i do honda oem p28 timing belt, and should i just do water pump while im there. i dont know how old the water pump is, but the block was rebuilt not to long ago.

 

how can i just reset the timing for the mean time, to get me past these couple of days til the weekend. I get no power on the highway what so ever. and i drive all highway to get to my mechanic/girlfriends house. can i slip the timing belt off the top pulley, rotate the pulley to line up, and then slide back the timing belt. is that possible. i will replace the timing belt this weekend.

edit: i actually checked the timing hovering over it, and was at an angle, so it looked of. found out i should use a mirror and the timing is right on

 

So the timing is good then? Have you done a compression test? checked the fuel pressure reg?

 

havent checked compression test, and how do i check fuel pressure regulator. and the problem seems to be intermittent. at times it will do it, at others it wont,

 

Never mind the regulator, if that's going bad you'd have a rough idle and hard starting. How about the fuel filter?

Def check the compression. At the same time look the plugs over.

Is it consistently intermittent? Like when it's warm outside or the car has been running for a long time?

Could be a vacuum leak... Lots of different things...

 

yea i dont know when it does it. driving to school in the morning aint bad because im back roads so i dont push it. so far today it has been fine. i catch the highway going home from work. so ill check to see if it starts when im on the highway at certain speeds or something. idk

 

To answer a few of your side questions...

D16Z6 and D15B7 have the same cam gear and the gear has the timing markings for both engines on it. What is different is which markings you use to set the cam to TDC, as noted in the top right hand corner of RonJ's image:

When you put the head on did you set the head to TDC as noted for D16Z6?



If you need to reset your timing, set the engine to TDC using the spark plug hole method. Then loosen the tensioner bolt (the lower timing belt cover has a removable cap over the bolt head). Now slip off the belt and set the head to TDC using the method described for the engine the head came from. Slip the belt back on. Now using a 17mm socket, turn the crank pulley counterclockwise so that the cam gear rotates ~14º (3 teeth) to put tension on the belt. Now tighten the timing belt tensioner bolt.


Also, the upper timing belt cover you need is the one for a D16Z6. They have different part numbers between D15B7 and D16Z6... i'm not sure why or if they are different in the way they fit, but you're better safe than sorry to just get the D16Z6 one since it matches your head.