Urgent timing help needed.

The damper on your car and the one in the drawing are not the same. The drawing has the "3 marks" on the right side of the hole, your damper has them on the left. There's nothing you can do to make your damper match the drawing, unless it's reversible and also has marks on the inside.

 

My damper doesn't even have the "3 marks", only has the 2 holes

 

The three drill points are not for timing. I am guessing that they are for balancing the pulley. The timing mark is the notch on the outside diameter of the pulley, as should in the zoomed in circle in the right side of the diagram that you posted.

 

It is very hard to see the notch in the OD of the pulley in your picture, but it does not seem to be at TDC. Can you post a new picture taken more at the top of the pulley showing the notch?

 

That's correct those marks are for balancing the pulley they have nothing to do with anything to set timing engine or anything those three dots could be anywhere on the pulley If you get an aluminum light white one it won't have any at all I don't think they make them for the one NZ. But they do for other vehicles and I have them on some vehicles. All your concerned about is the notches that are ground on the very outer part of the v and of course whatever timing marks are on the chain and are on the sprocket looks like you're good to go You should be running and driving not worrying for the most part everything looks pretty spot-on.

 

Thank you for the pictures. Yes, it looks good. The earlier picture was hard to tell if it was at TDC.

 

That looks...ODD.

The service manual shows setting the timing alignment using the colored links at 20° ATDC. If the crank was AT 0° I would expect the camshaft sprocket marks to be "perfectly" at 12 o'clock relative to the cylinder head surface.

Judging by the small bolts on the front of the VVT actuator, it looks to be advanced - 1 tooth clockwise- from that. The "left" bolt appears to be mostly above the head surface and the "right" is below. It seems to match the diagram in the manual at 20°, but the crank is at 0°.

Personally I have never had to do chain work on a Gen2, maybe someone who has can chime in on those pics.



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Here's what I mean. At 0° I would expect the intake notch to be at the yellow mark, and both red and blue bolt heads to be even with the head surface. The top bolt would in line with the green mark.

Since the colored links look "ok", both cams could be off.

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There it is in pic #3. The dot on the crank sprocket is supposed to be lined up with the center of the colored link. You have it on the edge, so that's one tooth off (not a "full link" on the chain, just one tooth on the sprocket).

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Back to the instant replay. The dot on the sprocket currently is yellow. The center of the link is blue. This explains the previous camshaft pics.

I am not going to go round and round about how or why it takes whatever time to throw the P0016.

This says the timing is off. Gotta go fix that then see.

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mr_guy_mann called it in #15; the colored link is a tooth away from the crank sprocket dot.

If there are 18 crank sprocket teeth (which I think is right), then that's a timing error of 20 crank degrees (equivalently, 10 cam degrees). The valve timing is 20 crank degrees ahead of what it should be.

The VVT-i for gen 2 expects to be able to time the intake opening from 18° ahead to 15° behind.



With one tooth off, that range ends up being from 38° ahead to 5° ahead. Part of that range overlaps the expected one, so at certain operating points the ECM might not be noticing a problem.