Hey Y'all, I am looking for some diagnosis help here. I just changed out my timing belt and water pump on my accord...man who thought changing a water pump would be so involved, dang. But I got that done and my engine runs smoothe so I dont THINK I screwed up the timing. However in the process of moving things around I screwed something else up. In low RPMs when I give it some gas, there is huge lag before my engine winds up. The problem happens a lil in first but is terrible in 2nd. I can floor it and get no rev for like 3 seconds, then the RPM hop up, but really slow. There is also some bouncing mixed in there too, almost like it's missing, but its not. We found one vacuum hose that was disconnected and when we connected it, it fixed the problem for a little while, but now it's doing it again. Does it sound like a vacuum leak? As soon as the car is going, in the higher RPM, the car runs fine. Thanks if anyone experienced out there can help me out.

 

Did you mess up the timing by not putting the belt on the correct teeth? I would recheck that first.

 

sounds like it could be a bad timing issue.

 

everything was top dead center...and it idles fine, it revs fine with no load...is there anyway to check to see if the timing is off by maybe one tooth or something? Cause visually it was not when I put it together....all the marks lined up...so I don't know

 

did you make any markings (i.e. on the dizzy, flywheel, etc...) before you did the belt change? get a timing gun and check your timing. similar thing happend when i changed my gf's dizzy and the timing was hosed. i checked the timing and i know its unorthodox but i ended up moving it up a tooth and it worked like a charm.

 

Haha yeah so I checked it and I was one tooth off. Sooo much less frustrating to drive now. Thanks for the help.