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Originally Posted by 04 Honda Civic  lol there are bolts for the coil packs put them on!! Nice success on your job well done. You saved yourself a few hundred dollars. You should have done your alternator and ps belts while you had em off. |
thanks man i definately feel proud and i suprised alot of people.
lol i accually did bolt them on,, plug after that i had only halfway in.
ya i did the belts too. it was pretty cool how they tension from the top i really like that feature. made it very easy.
i think i saved like a 1000 dollars!
parts
- 12$ timing belt
- 100$ motor mount
- 50$ water pump
- 30$ valve cover gasket
- 4$ lug and stud
- 45$ brake pads the good ones!
- 2$ grease
- 5$ rtv glue
- 30$ coolant
- 20$ oil and filter
- 12$ spark plugs
- 3$ anti seize
- 25$ chilton book (get this noobs! vital. you can always cross check other peops info with it and understand what has leeway and what does not.)
so about 355$ in parts. about 200$ in tool investments. with no tools i imagine about 500$ would be needed.
855 dollar investment total to get this sort of job done from a starting point of having nothing. not bad. shop still would have been more with no tools to show for it.
the whole job took 30 hours that included-
-timing belt
-water pump
-broked lugnut (torque wrench from now on. this job was a biatch.)
-drive belts
-spark plugs
-valve adjustment
-new motor mount
-oil change
-coolant flush
-tire rotation
-brake pads (greased them up good on the backs too!)
-reading time
-auto parts store time
-asking questions
-cleanup
:b ump:
there was even a chirping sound the last 50000 miles or so that would occur during acceleration at about 2500 rpm and last till about 2800 rpm. that sound has almost vanished. theres a hint of it here and there. like a rattle meets a chirp ya know? i think it was either drive belt related or tensioner pulley related. im not sure. 
