Think there is an inspection panel on the flywheel housing to remove and illuminate a mark on flywheel, with a strobe/timing light.

But you would then need to remove the (in UK) drivers side wheel etc., ...

Noel

i was refitting it days ago, just want to be sure its fine-but its reving up to 7k so probably it is

Diwiak said:

any chance to find if it not slipped without removing covers??? or only by poor power???

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Nope needs the covers off. The flywheel mark will only tell you if the ignition timing is right and that will be right as the crank sensor is on other end of the crank.

Its the cam timing that leads to poor performance.

Cheers

SPD

Oops, good excuse the Mx-5 has its TDC sensor on the cam shaft.

Noel

well i will check the timing belt, but i checked it the other day and it seemed fine. will let you no

cougar2402 said:

well i will check the timing belt, but i checked it the other day and it seemed fine. will let you no

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Not the timing belt, the actual timing needs to be checked.

Cheers

SPD

ok today i checked the timing on the car, the 2 marks on crank and cam both lined up, turned 2-3 times and still in line,

so crank somewhere at 9:50 and camshaft at 8:45 ?? than its fine change lambda

cougar2402 said:

ok today i checked the timing on the car, the 2 marks on crank and cam both lined up, turned 2-3 times and still in line,

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Yet, on the other post you said you had it a tooth out, eh?

Cheers

SPD

yeh it was a tooth out before when i was having problems with it running right. it was back firing then, but sorted that.

I've just experienced the timing issue. Mine was running rich, plenty of revs when stationary, but no 'go' when driving. On checking the static timing position of both the cam and crank, I found that they were out by a few teeth. I set the position of the cam timing mark against the head, then relieved the tension of the tensioner so the cambelt went slack. Then, I could move the crank the shortest way around until it's mark lined up on the engine block timing mark. Next I put the belt back on and took up the slack again with the tensioner. having done all this, I turned the engine round by hand a few times to check that it was fine. The improvement in running was instant, power where I wanted it.
Thanks to the previous posts and links which helped no end!

You are lucky that the FIRE engine has plenty of clearance. Most other OHC engines would have destroyed something a few teeth out.

Cheers

SPD