On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:19:35 -0800, beerismygas wrote:

> hi there,i have a 2001 1.6L civic with manual gearbox. i have a habit of
> leaving it in gear when parked on a slope as additional safety.
>
> one day this week i parked on an exceptionally steep gradient, car
> facing upward towards the peak. appartently i hadnt pulled the
> handbrake tight enough and as i released the footbrake the car slid back
> a foot.the car would slow down every few inches where i assume a
> compression stroke was being done.
>
> my car still works fine but i still wonder: does direction of rotation
> matter in modern cambelt engines?
>
> thx

if the belt is loose, you can skip a cam tooth. but you'd notice if that
had happened.