Re: CRX: Timing belt or distributor?

[Allen Turner]

It could be a number of things, I experienced a similar problem, the starter would crank but there would be nothing happening. Gas was getting to the engine and there was air going thru it, but the timing belt wasn't connected to the cam shaft. It's in the shop right now and I'll know more later. You might pull the head off and see if everything is connected properly.
Allen
'86 Snow Mobile


On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 07:37 US/Central, David M. Goodwin wrote:

It' been very cold here - too cold to be needlessly working.

I the engine make a different noise when you try to crank with a broken
timing belt. But it seems to be making the same noise but everything seems
to rock in the head. Would a bad distributor cause the same noise? I should
be able to pop the distributor cup to see, right? Anyway, it seems to crank
over faster with no fire. Any clues?

Dave