Civic EG

Well tonight my Crank pulley and the adjoining bolt decided to take a permanent vacation from my motor, Now my question is, how does a bolt that is torqued down to 190ftlbs wiggle its way out of the crank?


I did recently replace teh timing belt on my civic, say oh 8k ago or so. And i ordered a new bolt from Honda and torqued it down when putting it back on. I am confused as fuck as to what happened. I am seeing this as an excuse to motor swap my car . But its just unfortunate that it happened when it did, i got hours cut at work, and i have a shit ton of bills to pay. and no car to get to work now.

did you use locktite when you torqued it down? very odd, but ive seen it one other time aswell ...

yes i used locktite. locktite Red if remember correctly

Mr. Pink wrote:yes i used locktite. locktite Red if remember correctly

dam now i wanna know too ... i hope mine never comes off!

was the Woodruff Key installed correctly? It's a little piece of rectangle metal that fits in the slot on the end of the crank & pulley. I had a bolt come loose back in the day & pulley came off when I did not have the key installed.

yes the woodruff key was there, i made sure of it.