My timing belt broke on my 1989 Accord SEI. I guess it's a two liter fuel
injected. I managed to get it apart and get the new belt on. I got lucky and
didn't have any bent valves. The problem is figuring out where TDC is, so as
to be able to synchronize the cam and crank shafts. I have three books and
none of them show what the actual marks look like. Looking through the
little peep hole at them, I can see on the advanced side about three hash
marks, one of them red. Then as you go to the retard side there is a (0)
with no hash mark at all and then farther over to the retard side is another
mark or so. Why in hell can't they just have TDC and a mark next to it? If
it wasn't a solo job I guess I could try the stick in the spark plug hole to
find TDC. I've never done that and am a little afraid of crunching it in the
cylinder.

Anywhoooo ... I got it running, set the timing and took it for a drive
around the block and thought it was OK. I let my son drive it 90 miles to
school and back this morning. He said that it didn't run right, so I tried
it out again. It runs like it's way under powered and has a bogging down
sound when you accelerate, as well as pinging. I guess I'm probably a tooth
off one way or the other. Any ideas or thoughts on this? Which way too far
and am I gonna burn the valves up. Thanks in advance, for any and all
responses.