f*cking finally someone that knows how to explain this process properly. some really crap videos of timing belt work on youtube!! good job young man, you did an awesome job!
Great job explaining and making this job easier for others, you guys are good as gold for taking the time to make this job easier for the next guy. Money saving and pride from doing this type of maintenance is what it's all about. DYI folks
Don't do it this way. No one should ever install a Honda timing belt this way. It has to be installed in a certain sequence, and then rotated with the tension bolt loose, to put correct tension on the belt to ensure it doesn't skip a tooth. My Integra with 378K miles original engine has had 5 timing belts, always installed correctly by using the spring only to tension the belt. Never any issues. Installing it this way is a good way to have the belt skip a tooth later, or even to have the engine out of time at the initial install, because either the crank or cam sprockets will end up rotating away from each other to take up the slack, when that screwdriver is used to push on the tensioner pulley.
I enjoyed the video but a little confused.I see the tensioner installed and spring installed,but I missed the part where new spring was partially removed .
I hope that belt stays on since you installed it incorrectly. The whole purpose of the spring is to tension the belt. You're supposed to start by wrapping the belt around the crankshaft gear and then around the tensioner and then around the water pump then around the rear cam gear and around the front cam gear. You do this with the bolt loose on the tensioner and then you tighten the tensioner bolt and you just let the spring do its thing. Then you rotate the engine four or five times and put it at top dead center again. Then you loosen the tensioner bolt 180 degrees and then you rotate the engine 3 cam gear teeth in the spring automatically tightens the belt .. then you tighten the bolt on the tensioner. This is the way the Honda manual says to do it and this is the correct way that they do it at Honda.
This. Absolutely this. This timing belt was installed incorrectly and could jump teeth at some point. There should be no slack between the exhaust cam and crank sprocket before tensioning the belt. Any slack should be over around the water pump and tensioner pulley, so that the tension adjustment process can take up the slack. The belt looks like it's probably off a tooth as installed here.
Hey man great video! Im having a little issue with my timing it my first time doing it myself & it seems like one cam is more to the left making it impossible to line up the marks on cams, any advice?
@@Daniel-bo1zs yeah i figured it out i basically tucked the belt in in the middle between the cams by 1 tooth on the belt and tightened it so it was even on both sides
If you look on the cam shafts there is a hole to insert an allen wrench or pin to hold the cam gears perfectly in line. You don't even need that waste of money tool he used
what does clocking the timing belt mean ? i set it tdc then took off the pulley everything lines up good can i take the belt off or should i put the bolt back in turn it over a few times and back to tdc?
emery cloth is much safer and works better then a scraper which could mare the surface. I also use a screwdriver for tension vs using the spring to tension. I like how you rotated then tightened again, I know mines good possibly slightly tight but seeing that makes my ratchet click lol
Good video but def not a good idea to rotate the engine clockwise it can cause a valve to bend or piston to valve contact other than that good tutorial
You don't even need the Cam locker. Honda already included a free camlocker in the design. If you look on the camshafts behind the cam pulleys there are holes to insert 5 mm pins or Allen wrenches to hold the cams in the right spot.
question for ya! first time doing a b swap into my ef hatch i got the motor in and started it , the timing belt is running off the cams , i remembered i accidentally took off the tensioner bolt but i put it right back in would that have maybe messed up the tension of the belt and causing it to run off the cams? If so should i just put it to TDC and make sure the marks line up and then put tension on the tensioner again and tighten it up? let me know thanks a lot !
Yeah I would say set both of the cams to top dead center and the crank. So that all the marks are where it should be. Then tighten then tensioner. Then rotate the motor a couple time and check and make sure all the marks are still be where they should be
I set the motor to TDC and noticed that the intake cam jumped a few teeth , i heard you can wedge a credit card between cam and belt so you can turn the cam to correct position without taking the belt off , do you think the cam skipping could have damaged the motor?
No usually they don't. I have seen more break and they just peacefully stop and don't damage each other. I had one break at 106,000k and nothing happened bad to my engine. The same thing happened to two other customers I don't know I've even never come across somebody where the valves crashed into the Pistons but I know it does happen.
I messed up in the video was supposed to turn counter clock wise three times just to make sure the timing didnt get out of wack when tightening the tensioner
Wow this kid is handling the new belt with dirty greasy fingers and also turning it over in wrong direction. Other than that it's quite clear and precise minus the torque specs of bolts..
@@JohnnyFabz btw theres loads of b18c1's in USA, quite rare here in the UK (known as b18c4). I better get back to my b20 vtec, coincidently doing the timing belt now..
Apologies if I'm wrong but it's an auto tensioner. If you turn the engine in the correct direction with the spring attached, the tensioner will do its thing and apply tension. You can then simply tighten the bolt down. I've done this many times. It works fine.
