Check engine light. Timing?

[93Lzr]

I just changed out my head gasket on my car and got her up and running. Idle is a little rough and you can feel and hear the car missing. After it has been running about a minute a check engine light comes on. Tonight I took off my upper timing cover and my timing belt was way off to the drivers side. I had it dead in the center when I installed it. So my question is would by belt being a few teeth off throw a code or no? I haven't been able to get a scanner on it yet but that's the only thing I can think of that I would have messed up.

 

[1davho]

Its probably setting a misfire code. Did you turn the engine over and let it sit for 30 minutes and turn it over again to ensure that the timing didn't move when the belt stretched?

 

[DSM1G90]

O2 sensor detected an extreme mixture condition - either rich or lean - causing the CEL with camwork being so far off.

Get your cams back in time with doing the belt install procedure testing before firing it up again. Just lucky you didn't smack up any valves with your camwork being that far off.

 

[93Lzr]

I checked it and checked again. Must have missed something though. I'm gonna rip it apart tonight.

 

[Dsmkauai]

Did you take the oil pan off by chance? And if timing is off even by 1 tooth sometimes valves are bent no way around it bro!! That's why it's called a interference motor!

 

[93Lzr]

No I didn't take the pan off. Timing has jumped on this car before and nothing has bent so I don't know. I'll just set timing them do a compression test. I rebuilding it this winter anyways.