[Shotimes] Timing belt change - original?

[Mark Mucher]

No Japanese characters - just traditional Chinese.  Could be Japanese, 
but most likely from Taiwan.

Never thought about where the belt was put on!

Seems like my original belt  ('89) was American.

mm in sunny FL

Darin Lind wrote:

>Well my buddy and I changed the timing belt in my newly acquired
>93 MTX with 126k miles.  I have no information on it's previous
>maintenance.  Can anyone confirm if this is the original timing belt
>(has japanese writing so I am guessing yes)?
>
>http://home.attbi.com/~darin.lind/timingbelt.jpg
>
>I had sort of forgotton alot from when we did this on my 90
>about 4 years ago.  We had one problem / scare - we removed the
>crank sensor to get the middle timing belt cover out, as there was
>not enough slack in the CPS wire to move it out of the way.  Tried
>maneuvering the other side connector through the intake to give us
>slack but no way.  Later we saw if we snaked it to the other side of
>the fuel rail, it would go through.  But in any case, I had never removed
>the CPS and recalled it had to be gapped, so I searched archives, gapped
>it at .03", and hoped we didn't screw up the sensor.
>
>So with timing belt in, before we put everything back together, I just
>pushed the
>crossover tube onto the intake, plugged in the DIS, just to see if it would
>fire.
>Cranked and cranked but nothing!  After numerous pondering (and the dilemma
>of needing a new CPS on a saturday night), I realized the DIS module is
>grounded
>through the intake.  So I just *bolted* down the crossover tube, and bingo!
>Sigh of
>relief!
>
>Darin
>93 MTXotimes