"honda man" <deweyrothering@yahoo.com> wrote
> Thanks for the response. I plan to get in there in five days or so.
> Hope there will be no problems until then. Seems to "tick" less with
> warmer weather. I wonder if my 12 year old tensioner springs have lost
> some of their pull, causing the belt not to tighen as much as it needs
> to? Any comments on old springs not pulling the belt tigher?

I was advised to change my 91 Civic's tensioner about every other timing
belt change.

My Civic has 174k miles on it and the original tensioner. No problems so
far. I change the belt next year and already purchased a new tensioner,
based on what people here told me, for a related job, anticipating I might
want to replace the tensioner sooner rather than later.

You should google the two Honda newsgroup archives for {tensioner bearings}
for more discussion, as well as keep checking back here. See for example:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...da0fbd99460b19


Seems there's some discussion elsewhere of varying noise from the bearing
from cold to hot, and checking this with the method Jim described.