I can garentee you the belt is on there fine. You car would not be running right at all, to say nothing about passing emissions if it was. Make sure the Honda Tech you talked to knows it is a '96. It is the only 4th gen that had OBD-II so he may be used to working on the OBD-I 4th gens. If he still thinks you can adjust it at the dizzy find another dealer and never go back there again, they obviously don't know anything about their cars.
I checked the belt AGAIN. After lining up both cams TDC I look at the flywheel and the white X appears to be off by .25"
Are you sure it wouldn't run right if the belt was off one tooth. Does anyone know please Help.
I think I found the problem. My idle was off by a couple hundred rpm's. Using a digital timing light I checked the rpm's and it was idling at 900-1000 rpm. I adjusted the screw on the throttle body and got the idle down to 700-800. At idle it fluctuates between aprox. 715 and 790 rpm, with the timing light it reads 13-17btdc(back and forth, back and forth). So when I get smogged again it Better be in that range or I'll fail again even if it's just one degree off.
Now I can't get it to stay idling between 700-800, it fluctuates between 800-900 and the timing goes 18-19 btdc. It's a slight rising and falling of the rpm's, get's worse as the idle screw is closed and idle drops. Got the screw almost dead tight, doesn't want to stay at 750rpm. It keeps fluctuating back and forth slightly.
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Now I can't get the damn thing to stay idling between 700-800, it jumps to 800-900 and the timing goes to 18 or 19btdc. And I got the idle screwed all the way shut at this point. What a pain!
Did you unplug the fans? Shut off all accessories...?
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