ewilliams1990
New Member
Okay guys, so I was tearing down the engine bay for a head gasket repair one of my cars. It's a 1999 honda civic ex with a stock d16y8. Everything went fairly smooth except for breaking the god damn intake manifold nuts off. But I eventually got everything out the way and removed the head.
NOW HERE COMES THE ISSUE.
I was finishing up the night by cleaning up of course. I did half of the job and was planning to do the rest tomorrow because it was getting late and daylight was burning out. So I cleared the floor, organized tools and everything so tomorrow will be smooth. I had the car half inside of the garage, so I had to pull it out to the driveway before I called it a night. I knew you can but the car into on position to select a gear, so I did just that and forgot to remove the fuel pump fuse. So I went a removed the fuse then proceeded to turn the car back to on. IT WAS ALREADY IN POSITION. I CRANKED THE ENGINE.
I only cranked it once really quick and turned it off. I jumped out and took a look at the engine. My timing belt was no longer in the position i left it. It got sucked down. I turned over the engine by hand and reset it to TDC. The timing belt marks I made to match are now never going to match up, I guess the belt jumped. There's no damage to the belt. Is it okay to just re-align TDC and continue where I left off? I am no way in the mood to do a timing belt job too. Please if anyone can cast some light my way I'd greatly appreciate that.
Thank you! Sorry about the novel
NOW HERE COMES THE ISSUE.
I was finishing up the night by cleaning up of course. I did half of the job and was planning to do the rest tomorrow because it was getting late and daylight was burning out. So I cleared the floor, organized tools and everything so tomorrow will be smooth. I had the car half inside of the garage, so I had to pull it out to the driveway before I called it a night. I knew you can but the car into on position to select a gear, so I did just that and forgot to remove the fuel pump fuse. So I went a removed the fuse then proceeded to turn the car back to on. IT WAS ALREADY IN POSITION. I CRANKED THE ENGINE.
I only cranked it once really quick and turned it off. I jumped out and took a look at the engine. My timing belt was no longer in the position i left it. It got sucked down. I turned over the engine by hand and reset it to TDC. The timing belt marks I made to match are now never going to match up, I guess the belt jumped. There's no damage to the belt. Is it okay to just re-align TDC and continue where I left off? I am no way in the mood to do a timing belt job too. Please if anyone can cast some light my way I'd greatly appreciate that.
Thank you! Sorry about the novel