What is the timing aliment on a 90 Honda Accord LX?

Answer 1

The timing alignment is setting the timing to TDC (Top Dead Center) for piston #1, then taking a timing light and measuring the timing. Take your car and turn the key to the ON position and turn the front wheels all the way to the left. Apply parking brake. Push brake pedal and shift into Neutral (for automatics) or put the stick shift into Neutral. Find the Timing Inspection Plug on the housing of the transmission below the Distributor. Remove plug. Have a helper with a flashlight look into the Inspection Plate of the Flexplate/Flywheel for the white timing mark to appear... Then take an 18mm socket (I think its an 18mm...) and slowly turn the main bolt on the crank pulley/harmonic balancer COUNTER-CLOCKWISE until the white timing mark lines up with the Timing Marks on the Motor. That is to find TDC for #1.

To SET your timing, start engine and let it warm up to normal operating temperature, connect a timing light to the positive terminal of the battery and the other to a good ground..then attach the inductive timing clip on the #1 spark plug wire. Aim the timing light at the hole of the Timing Inspection Plug and the light will flash only when the #1 cylinder is firing. The proper timing should be at the 2nd tick mark ABOVE the Red Timing Mark on the Inspection Plate of the Flexplate/Flywheel. To either advance or retard the timing to get the tick marks to align with the 2nd tick mark above the red timing mark, loosen the 3 - 12mm bolts that secure the distributor. Carefully move (or swing) the distributor front or back until 2 degrees above the red timing mark is achieved. Once the timing is set, tighten the distributor bolts and you're done.