Honda Car Forum

Hey,

Just want to say thanks to the guys here for helping me out a couple
months back. I posted under the heading "Air intake too loud" and we had
concluded that the mechanical timing was off.

Yesterday, after my semester was completed, I rolled the Civic into the
garage, took everything apart and upon making the first piston TDC, there
it was. The white marks I had placed on the camshaft pulley were off by
one tooth. The crankshaft pulley must have turned originally because the
marks on the camshaft pulley were lined up. Anyway...

So I adjusted the timing, triple checked it, put everything back and the
car sounded beautiful. Not to mention i'm back at full
strength...power-wise. With the timing off and having to turn the AC on,
I had one slow ride.

The only odd...well, maybe not odd...thing to occur was the car died on me
twice after the initial start. I'm taking it that the computer was
readjusting to the new timing because the RPM's started behaving normally
after I was driving on the highway for about 30mins.

-AGS

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