Alright, you guys have sparked my interest. I am a Jeep guy by nature. I just bought an 89 Honda Accord for a thousand bucks. It is loaded with all the bells and whistles and still in pretty good condition. I bought the car to let the Jeep TJ rest in the garage for the 60 mile trip to work and back. It has 109K miles on it and I need to change the timing belt.

I am a fairly good mechanic after a beer or two. I change out engines, transmissions, and transfer cases in my Jeep all the time. How hard can a timing belt be? Someone mentioned taking out the engine? Lol... Hell no. I see no reason why you couldn't just take off the power steering pump and move it out of the way. After you move a few doodads you should be able to get to the crankshaft and camshaft with no problems. Take off old belt and put on the new belt. Then just take a timing light and take the plug out of the bell housing. Rotate the distrubtor a notch or two and be on your way. Is there something fundamentally wrong with my thinking here? Some of you guys have either never changed a timing belt and adjusted the timing, or I am in for more work than I have planned.

Then again, Jeepers are a different breed of auto owners. If it's broke we can take out a Swiss Army knife and intsall a new engine. They are easy to work on. Honda's are not shade tree friendly.

I have already adjusted the valves and made the engine run and sound better. If you guys want a write-up on how to do it just leave a post and I will give you some instructs and a few pictures.