something weird going on here?

Just replaced the head on my 89 honda accord and rotating the crank
sounds like the valves are hitting the pistons? called the shop I
bought the head from and they are kinda stumped too? I put the number
one cylinder up and valves little tight so loosened up so the .006
will fit and the .011 on the exhaust. will go through the rest of the
4 cylinders and check again for this noise/tapping. after that wonder
if they somehow installed the wrong valves? have any suggestions
thanks.

 

Remove the head once more. Flatten a bit of plasticine on the piston tops
so it covers only the areas where the valves might come close to the
pistons (maybe 1/16" thick).

Crank the engine over by hand four full revolutions. Remove head. Observe
dents in plasticine.

 

that's a lot of work to figure out the timing belt's not been set right
- i'd check for that "gotcha!" first.

 

You're right of course.

I think I was confusing this thread with a similar one somewhere else where
the OP had rebuilt the engine and ended up wuth the same problem.

 

got into it today again after work and adjusted all the valves but
when hand cranking again hearing the same noise. then before starting
to remove rocker assy. and cam to see if they installed the right
parts tried something else. took the timing belt back off and rotated
the crank. heading same noise? I think the noise is coming from the
bent timing tab that was bent down when breaking loose the crank bolt.
I think the tab is hitting something at the bottom end of the
rotation. If that is it about the only way to bend it back up through
that small witness hole is with a slide hammer with a stong hook
whatever on the end. question now is has anybody had the same problem
and is this how that fixed the problem too

 

turned out I was right. It was the timing plate the was bent and
causing the noise. a friend had a home made slide hammer with a hook
on the end which worked getting it back up and stopped the contact
that was causing the noise when rotating the crank. started it today
and noise gone now. on to putting the belts covers ect. back on to
complete the job now. for you all who have problems like this let me
know and can hopefully help. :

 

i would be very cautious about that repair. you many not be able to
hear anything right now, but there's a good chance that there's still
something rubbing and potentially fraying your timing belt. the safe
choice is to strip down and /replace/ whatever it is you bent.

 

Thanks for your response back but maybe I didn’t make myself care as
to what was bent. The timing plate is on the other end and the timing
belt is on the end with the pulley and crank. The timing plate is no
reason to remove anything unless it breaks off then the oil pan would
have to be removed to get it out

 

the toothed pulley the crank turns for the timing belt comes off in your
hand - no need to pull the oil pan to replace anything. it's still not
clear exactly what you bent, but whatever it is, it's your call what you
do next: reliability or taking a chance on bent valves? seems like an
easy choice to me.