Thanks for making the video! The half-hour of instruction you provided will save me a couple hours of struggle!

Thanks a ton, you did a , great job with these. Finished an 03 in about 5-6 hours taking my time and dealing with an old back. Saved about $650 from the quote I got vs parts alone.

Gotta do this to my son's recent car acquisition, and it's very nice to *watch* somebody do the procedure first. Thanks so much!

I really appreciate the time that is taken to build a great video on this. Thanks for the help!

Fantastic set of videos. Carefully shows important points that are not obvious and that a home mechanic could easily miss. Worth the time to watch them through.

One of the best how to videos I've seen. I would suggest considering replacing the TDC sensor (crank sensor) while in there - it' cheap and can fail, especially in hot climates. I just had a P1361 error on my '02 Civic and is likely a bad sensor. I'm due to replace the timing belt, so going to do it all in one shot since getting to the TDC sensor is well into the process.

Thanks to these videos i feel confident that i can change the timing belt myself on my 03 Acura EL which is pretty much the same vehicle as the Civic. Mechanics here in Canada would charge around $1000+ to get this done. I owe you big time man, thanks.

I just picked up a 2003 Honda Civic 1.7L Sedan with 150k in great condition. Unfortunately the previous owner failed to do timing kit maintenance, just routine oil changes. I'm a stickler for proper maintenance on my cars and these videos will greatly assist me. Thank you for your hard work and patience recording them!

@leeh.8629

3 жыл бұрын

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Bro this has got to be one of the best videos or set of videos I have ever seen for anything mechanics on KZread !!! Much props and great job.!!!

Bro one of the best videos or video sets I have ever seen for anything mechanics on KZread. Much props and a Damm good job.!!!

@myRatchets

10 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks alot for your comment, much appreciated. Cheers!

Great video to learn. I am planning to replace my water pump, timing belt, tensioner, other 2 belts, valve cover gasket, and some seals. I just wish you show us the reverse installation though. Thanks So much!!!

I just wanted to comment and leave notes after following these videos from beginning to end on my 2005 Civic. This entire series deserves money (see #7) and was so well put together. (1) The crankshaft bolt is pretty easy to get off with a pipe (as in the video) go to Home Depot and pick up a similar 48" pipe for about $20. If you really don't need need it afterwards it is a fairly easy item to return. But, holy crap did it make it painless. I matched the same setup in the video. The first time through I broke some tools, which should put some perspective on the torque required. It was borderline orgasmic when that bolt finally popped off. (2) Don't use any conversion tips (1/2 to 3/8") during the crankshaft bolt removal. You'll just ruin your tools :P (3) Extenders can easily be purchased at your local O'Reillys or equivalent for about $10. One set should be enough. Also, renting the crankshaft support tool is ~$50 and is completely reimbursable within 48 hours. My local store carried two of them, so I would think it is a fairly common tool for them. (4) If you have another vehicle available, it doesn't hurt to take your alternator to the O'Reillys and just have them test it. Who knows? It's free and you can have some peace of mind with it out. (5) During the reinstall it's not a bad idea to get your valve covers all sealed away and then work on your alternator belt. Get it nice and tight and then give your vehicle a start (power steering pump disconnected) so you can easily adjust the belt if it squeals. Don't forget to disconnect the battery in between doing so. Do the same with the power steering pump. (6) It took me probably 6 hours of actual work over two days. I got a bit flustered dropping bolts later on in the day and made a few mistakes that forced me to take off the crankshaft again (don't forget to put the cover on before putting it back on :P) I was also overly pedantic about TDC. Red grease pins are pretty helpful. (7) HOW DO I DONATE MONEY TO YOU?

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

Justin Van Horne Thank you for your comment, its very detailed and I am sure alot of people will find it very useful. It was quite a bit of camera work so glad to hear it helped you out and that you found it useful :) If you wish to donate, you can click on my channel name and then there is a blue support button on my channel page you can click on! Thats usually how I get tipped. Again thanks very much for your support, cheers.

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

RatchetsAnd Wrenches Also lol at the end of #1.

Just used these videos to replace water pump and timing belt on my Honda. Had laptop in garage would watch video hit pause do the step and repeat. I rated the videos (1-4) A+. They saved me a tremendous amount of time!

@diyautorepairvideos110

9 жыл бұрын

Awsome, glad to hear it. Cheers!

best video i have seen on youtube for this 👍👍🔧🔧🔧🔩

Amazing job on this video series. It has likely given me the confidence to attempt this job myself. Thank you!

Wow, very nicely done! There's a lot of DIY videos and I will be saving and sharing this one! The note about the spring for the Adjuster was where I was trying to discern and with the cut end away from the belt was a no brainer. Job Well Done!! 5 stars!!!

Good clear instructions without skipping important parts. Very Nice.

@myRatchets

8 жыл бұрын

+Isaac C gald to hear you liked it. cheers

Awesome videos. It has helped greatly. You even included the torque settings, very helpful. My car is a V-tech and has 1 extra thing that got in the way, but I was not about to take it loose. It is something to do with the brakes and it is right in front of the top timing belt cover. All the hard lines coming in and going out was a real knuckle buster, but I worked around it. I also found the need to remove the air box, etc... made it easier to get the valve cover off. Thanks again.

Great job, man! Your instructions/methods were excellent, and helped with any aprehension I had in doing this myself!

Definitely the best one out there. Video, and communications are clear and concise. Well Done!!

I am having the same issue with the crankshaft moving when u tension the belt. I tried sticking things in and it still moves slightly off TDC. Was messing with it for 3 hours today, trying to find a way to keep the crank from moving.Thank you!!

Excellent instructional video with every detail. Thanks a million!

Thank you, you're by far my favorite automotive youtuber

I was looking forward to seeing you tighten the a.c and alternator belt to see how. got confused when you showed the 2 bolts. can I tighten the ac by loosening the bolt by the ac compressor only?

Thank you sooooo much for such a great video. You did a great job explaining all the important details.

Well done video, excellent job covering all the key point. Thank you very much.

Hey my tensioner didn’t snap once I took off the grenade pin. Did I do something wrong?

These would have been great if I had seen these when doing the TB change. Now for a common question: if there's a whine/throaty lower-pitch hum, like in the video titled "H22a noise...bad timing belt tensioner?", how does one go about figuring out the problem? My Civic makes this noise after changing the TB. Any help much appreciated in advance.

Very detailed video. We all appreciate it.

excellent video, thanks for taking the time to do a great job

Great job on the video, nice and clear, easy to hear, well done.

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

Terry H Glad you liked it, thanks for your comment.

This is the best video on how to change a Civic 1.7 Timing Belt I have seen maybe. I will be performing these steps this winter. Tell me how long should this take? How long did video recording take? I will think of you when my first F-word comes out, then go through the why did I start this phase... then the that was not so bad in another 100k miles I will do it again. We do this because we must. Keep going at it, a happy subscriber. Take care.

getting ready to do my timing belt and pump, good info and great job on vid

Thanks a lot first time I'm working on Honda Civic 😎 I was needing help to put the tensioner right 😎✌️

Great videos So Helpful and easy to follow instruction Thanks

Great video, but the spring is backwards on the tensioner. I've heard it can rub the belt this way.

Just watched all 4. Great how to. Best on KZread. Thank you very much!

GREAT video Ratchets and Wrenches - what was the torque on the crank pulley by the way before TTY?

Great video. How do you go about aligning back the timing when you move it by accident ?

Great job on the video and the work keep it up man God bless..

excellent and great work

Question regarding adjusting valves... Our Insight calls for (occasional) checking of valve clearance. The car you worked on had adjustable valves as well. Be a good time to check the clearance would it not? Ours seems to be making a slight ticking above the engine in two locations. Don't think the injectors would make this noise. Thx

Doing my neighbors car right now everything is apart just waiting for parts to be delivered, the spring somehow came loose and was wedged between the crank sensor and the pulley, I don't know if it jumped time or not, there is a Cam sensor code so I'm replacing that also.

When you were adjusting the crankshaft bolt to get it in time, do you have to move the camshaft gear as well, two full rotations in order to line everything back up? Or can you just rotate the crank two full rotations?

Helps Alot for changing water pump .......

At 2:20 in video DO NOT jam stuff like that socket in there because those nubs/tabs on crank gear break easily and car will not run properly with even 1 damaged nub. They are quite important too as the crank position sensor sends signals to ECU based on those nubs as that gear turns. How do i know? Because I damaged them on my car when not being careful during timing belt job and had to get a new crank gear.

Excellent video.

Really great video! I'm so glad I found this. Thank you!

@myRatchets

10 жыл бұрын

I am glad you found it too, hah thanks for watching!

when you put the timing belt on does it help align the crank and camshaft?

Awesome Thank You, very informative and helpful.

I did all that . Now. my car is liking oil.. Bad. ? Should I put a nother. Head gasket. What's the tie espec?

Do you keep turning counter -clock wise until they eventually line up ?

Great tutorial,,

very clear and simple, i an so happy to see this video, thanks

@myRatchets

10 жыл бұрын

np, glad you found it helpful. cheers

please i want to ask you if the d15y3 engine it the same us this one my honda civic 2004 EXi-A 1.5l and thanks in advance

How did u adjust for tdc again you realized it moved while you were in the process of putting the new timing belt on? I thought you cant rotate it without the belt. Great vid by the way

Slacks always on the tensioner side good video

Man, this looks like such a big pain in the rear end. I'm not looking forward to this repair, but thanks to your videos I'm pretty sure I can handle it.

Great videos, man. Better bright light for night shooting would be very great.

my a.c. compressor squeels when it compresses. you think it the tensioner or the clutch assembly? or bearings?

is it possible to over tighten the timing tensioner on this engine? did mine twice after second time it makes high pitch whine when I give it throttle.

Great video aghajune ;-) can this video be used for a vtech engine as well?

Extremely helpful video!!!!! Do you have a shop?

So if you pull the pin on the tensioner right after installing it would that create a problem?

excellent excellent and excellent....

like ur video well explained bro.

Hello i have a question sir, after changing everything and starting my car, it seemed to run fine, but oil started to leak from the drivers side of the engine. Do you have any idea what it might be? thanks and have a good one

Amazing video! It covered literally everything. I would have never changed my belts so smoothly without this video. Thanks!

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

Nice, glad to hear it buddy. Cheers

Nice job.

very nice video

Whats the reason youd have to change it before it breaks? To me i dont like changing stuff till it breaks and needs fixing. If you dont change the timing belt and breaks is it always going to cause damage? Or only sometimes. Also another question does the timing belt give you any warnings before its goin break or just happens all of a sudden. Great videos by the way

Thank you for this video [watched in 2021]

Thanks for the four videos!! My Honda is purring like a kitten

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

Tom G. Nice, glad to hear. Cheers

Very nice video! Thanks

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

c00cs1 np, thanks for watching. cheers

Thanks to this series I successfully completed the job on my neighbors car, I used to work on their cars a long time ago, so one day the mother comes to me and asks if I still work on cars so I said that depends on what the problem is, so I went over to their house and the car was in the garage, the son came home from work managed to get the car in the garage and that was it, it wouldn't start after that, my guess was the timing belt, so I removed the oil cap and told him to crank the engine, the valves were moving, the money light was on and it was throwing a code for the cam sensor, so I read up and found it would cause a no start situation, but the engine didn't sound right when cranked, we pushed it down to my house and in my driveway where I removed the upper half of the timing cover where the cam sensor lives and discovered that the timing belt was extremely loose, so I removed the entire cover after taking half the engine apart and found that the timing belt tensioner spring had come off and was wedged between the crank pulley and the crank sensor and was all mangled, the belt was fine, seemed kind of narrow compared to the pulley, I informed them of what I found and here's the best part, they said that they had the timing belt replaced about six month ago at the Honda dealer, they didn't even use a Honda timing belt it was a dayco, I ordered a kit on eBay that included all Honda parts, timing belt, accessory belts, a new Honda water pump a valve cover gasket, I got the new tensioner from AutoZone but it didn't want to come with the spring and they didn't even stock the spring so I returned it and ordered the tensioner that came with the spring on eBay, they the dealer also screwed up the valve cover gasket, it wasn't put on right and was leaking oil all down the front of the engine, so I did it right and after a few months no more oil leak, they even had one mechanic tell them that the oil leak couldn't be fixed and was caused by blow by, I've been working on cars a long time and I never heard of that, but sure enough they showed me a paper that the guy printed out stated it, no wonder he's out of business now.

Well Done.

What's the torque specs for the water pump bolts and nuts?

This is old but a tip for these belts, ignore the instructions, route the belt around the crank and then straight up on the left to the cam gear. Get these 2 lined up perfectly first, then take a large paperclip( it's black flat like a triangle and has 2 silver handles they are common in offices) use this to hold your belt to the cam gear, then use a peice of folded cardboard underneath the crank gear to hold that part in place, then it's in perfect alignment and you are free to work around the water pump and tensioner, and build your tension from the inside out.

Thank you very much!!!!!!

Thank you sir!

Is there a special way to put on the tensioner?

Where is Your Shop Located? I'm Not a Professional Mechanic or Mechanic, But I Watched Your Step by Step Video Over and Over on 2005 VW Passat Replacing Timing Belt, Thermostat, Water Pump Video, and I did Exactly as You Showed. I'm so Grateful to The Success Fix on My Son's Car That Works PERFECT. Your Video Helped Me Build Confidence to Be Able to Now Fix My Daughter's 1997 Honda Civic Water Pump Replacement. I Might as Well Change Timing Belt and Maybe Tensioner if It's Bad. I Would Be a Student if You Had Classes. Blessings To Your Shared Knowledge, Thank You... P.S. on the Passat Job, I Put Old Timing Belt Back On, Because It Looked New and Later Found New One Tucked into The Box Hidden Cover Kit in a Plastic Bag. LOL! Thank You!

So what if it does it ✌just slide on✌? It's the right belt would be the same amount of teeth so it's not the wrong belt

It would be good to write down bolt torques on some of the major components, at the top, near the tools section.

Thanks Amazing video.

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

juandr242424 np, it was a lot of camera work. glad you like it.

Best video on this subject on youtube! Thanks! One question, how would you get to camshaft and crankshaft to top TDC if you already removed the belt?

@alowishusdevadanderabercro8190

10 жыл бұрын

Great videos, very nice :D - I think I have the same question as JJ - I was just about to slip the new belt on my '03 Civic when I realized my camshaft sprocket was upside down ("UP" mark on the bottom). All of a sudden I realized I had been using the cylinder on the far left as #1 to do compression and find TDC, because I'm used to a Corolla (damn!) Now I'm wondering what to do. I don't think anything got moved when I took off the old belt, so I should just be able to put the new one on, check TDC at the cylinder closest to the belts, and make sure the camshaft wheel marks are good, right? Do you know if that should work? Thx

@myRatchets

10 жыл бұрын

David G If you didnt move the cam or crankshafts after you took the belt off you can just slip the belt back on turn the crankshaft by your ratchet and line up the camshaft marks and check to see if the line on the crankshaft lines up as well. Make sure you turn the engine very slowly and stop if you suspect things have moved around after you took the belt off. Hope that helps, GL.

@SWYU498

10 жыл бұрын

RatchetsAnd Wrenches Got it - thanks again, great info! DG

Awesome 👍 thank you 👍

I assume the 90 degrees on crank bolt would work out to the spec 148ft lbs. Thanks for the great video series about this!

@jeremychavez9799

5 жыл бұрын

chris42000000 that’s correct

Maybe go over the torque for the reinstallation of the parts. Great job!

Did you find the intake clogged ?

nice video!!

@myRatchets

9 жыл бұрын

Vince Mussurici ty, thanks for commenting. cheers

Nice video, the only part I didn't get was the markings on crank pulley bolt..if you mark it coming off how do you arrive at an extra 90% of turn? maybe I'm being thick..

@paulbates7497

7 жыл бұрын

I think he marked it after the 15 pound torque setting step on the re-assembly

How long did it take you to Finnish the whole thing?

I feel as though I owe you some money. Thanks for posting. Dealer wanted $1200.

good job... I have the same problem..😒

great video, any recomendation where to find the torque for each bolt you took out

@myRatchets

10 жыл бұрын

Any repair guide should have them. (Alldata, Mitchel ondemand etc..). GL

@mclarkallen

10 жыл бұрын

honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=1169414 This link has lots of torque settings in Foot-Pounds (Ft-Lbs) ;)

How long did it take you to put everything back on? seems like that would be quite the ordeal.

Thank you it's nice video, I have a question for you, I have Honda Civic 1.7 L, Model 2005 the counter on, 347.000 KM do I need to change timing belt and water pump? ,what's the destance by KM wich we need after reach to it to change a timing belt? Thanks

@jesbaez5229

5 жыл бұрын

It's recomended every 60k miles

Nice

Nice video, but I would recommend to Torque the Crank Bolt to 150 ft bs, instead of marking the bolt position. Thank you.