I have a 97 Accord 4 cylinder manual trans with 280K miles on it. The timing belt broke and I am wondering if is is worth doing a DIY replacement. I understand that this is an interference motor and probably bent the valves or worse???
Let me know what I should expect in a worse case scenario for parts replacement & costs.
Thank you!
Bruce

 

My son's '94 Accord with roughly 200K miles had the same experience last week. I posted similar questions recently. I decided to pull the head and see what damage occurred. The result was both exhaust valves on Cylinder No. 4 were bent, so I had to replace only two valves. I had a local machine shop do a valve job on the head and replace both valves for $210. I picked up the cylinder head yesterday and started re-installing all of the parts today. While the car has been sitting on jackstands, I noticed that the water pump started leaking coolant through its weep hole. So I'll need to pick up a new water pump as well. This project is kind of a pain, but I did find the source of at least two oil leaks during the process--namely, the front balancer shaft seal and the distributor o-ring. So this project has some good.

 

I just moved bothof your post over here to the Genl Tech forum, we use the D.I.Y. forum for as it says in the rules of that forum..please read them and don't get tiffed...this post wasn't made to do that for either of you ...but to get all of our members used to "How to post in each forum..

Thank You both for posting...I found it very interesting