Timing Belt Installation with Honda Civic Tensioner

[@johnkook1022]

Thanks for posting this hint. It is not obvious how this tensioner works. It seems like there are just too many mechanical degrees of freedom. Your hint about not tightening the belt tensioner bolt just yet is right on. The tensioner spring along with the circular spring seems to find a natural balance point. Obviously, this is what the original engine design engineers intended. One additional hint is that it after releasing the pin and letting the circular spring spring loose to rotate the eccentric wheel and put tension on the belt, one should probably rotate the engine twice by hand before locking the belt tensioner to 33 ft/lbs.

[@Peurperformance]

Yes doing this locks that Lower circular spring to the lower stopper. I didn’t do this Nd get to fix it tomorrow and pray I didn’t bend another valve 😅

[@CharlesGwinn-ep9pb]

So Honda wasted 2 days of your time on a stupid new fangled that wouldve taken all of ten minutes if it were the traditional old style spring type.. Im having the same issue and watching these vids to get it right first time. Thanks Honda for making a simple procedure WAY more complicated than necessary. I guess they are becoming like their American counterparts with idiotic designs where if incorrectly installed, you have to get a new engine cause you done bent all your valves and dented the pistons. Way to sell out.