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I have my head off my 2.2 and the timing marks almost threw me at first until I thought about it.On the cam pulleys there is a notch that is to be lined up with the notch in the rear timing cover when installing the belt.There is a mark on the crank gear that is to the rear of the gear and it should be lined up with the mark on the back of the cover also.Now when I had all this lined up and pulled everything apart to do my valve replacement I noticed that my piston on the #1 cylinder wasn't at TDC!I thought oh #$%@ Haynes has done it to me again.Well I saw these arrows on the cam pulleys and I turned my engine to bring these into line with the notches on the cover and my #1 piston was at TDC.Anyway this really didn't matter for me in the scheme of things because I could turn my crank gear to line up the mark(which is not TDC by the way) and then set each cam pulley to their respective marks and install my new belt and all will be good.So I think if you need to find TDC on the #1 piston compression stroke just line up the arrows on the pulleys with the notches on the rear timing cover and you should be good.I'm simply stating what I observed on my '90 EJ22 so someone may want to investigate this further.I'll do a check by using my compression guage when I get my head back on and check the arrows to see what lines up.I'll post the results here.

Thanks for saving me from that one Legacy.I'm pretty new to these cars and I'm just trying some things and now maybe I'll get me an air box from the bone yard and hack it up and see what I get. I'll let you know what happens.I got my exhaust valve in the head yesterday and I'm going to put my engine together this morning and see how it runs.Oh yeah.Has anyone ever had to get at their fuel relay?They buried that sucker good under the drivers side dash.I'd like to do some harm to the engineer that came up with that one.

I'm looking for some info on the injectors used in the '90 2.2 Legacy Wagon and also would like to know if there are any good performance mods or swaps that I can do to boost power.I'm relatively new to wrenching on Soobs but I'm learning fast thanks to you guys. "'84 wagon rust bomb" "'90 Legacy wagon 2.2L" "'82 AMC Eagle 4-dr 4wd sedan 4L" "?"

Well the wagon definitely has a burnt exhaust valve. I removed the valve cover and the rocker arm assembly.The valves all bounced when I tapped them so they weren't stuck.So I pulled the plug and put air to the cylinder and the air came out the exhaust pipe meaning exhaust valve.I pulled it all down and it needed a timing belt anyway and the intake looked to have been leaking some too so maybe it was all for the best.The exhaust valve was missing a chunk the size of a pea.I'm putting it back together tomorrow so I'll let ya'll know how it goes.

Has anyone ever run the Denso plugs? I just put a set in my 90 2.2 and it runs pretty good. Just wonderin'. Later.

Hi folks. I'm new here and I really got alot of info from these boards. I do have a major problem though. I drive a 90 Legacy wagon with a 2.2 mpfi on a paper route and I just put a new clutch set in new wires and plugs a coolant temp sensor and air filter. Now I find that I have no compression on my #3 cylinder. I've been driving the car on 3 cylinders for the last 3 nights and it runs but rough at idle and no power before about 2500rpms. Anyway I need to know if I can do anything to get this roo to run better for a few more days so I can make enough dough to buy a head. Any thoughts will help. Thanks for your help.