I have been trying to find help on this question without much luck so I thought I would try posting this to the Vanagon List and see if anyone has any experience with this vehicle. We were trying to replace the timing belt on my friend's '86 Honda Accord Automatic with EFI the other day and were running into a problem. First of all his belt broke while going down the highway. I didn't think this engine was an interference engine so I figured we could just put on a new belt and he would be good to go. However when we tried to line up the timing marks to put the new belt on we ran into a problem. In the Haynes manual we were using it says that there should be a "T" on the flex plate to represent the mark for TDC. However we couldn't find anything that looked like a "T" and the marks looked different than in the book. We had a line with a "1" next to it, then a space, then a blue dot, then a space, then a 4, a red line, and a 6 crammed next to each other. We set the timing to the red line initially but when we started the car up we got a very loud valve tapping noise. So we changed the timing to the line next to the "1" and the noise changed (like it went to a different valve) but was still there. I need to know which mark should be TDC (I am starting to think it is the blue dot since this is between the two other marks)? I also would like to know if this engine is actually an interference engine (it is a 12 valve OHC) because if it is then he may have bent a valve when the belt broke. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com Phone: (856)-765-1583 Fax: (856)-327-2242
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