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- Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:04 am #126544 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.

|95 Civic DX|03 Silverado 2500hd|97 Escort LX

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:34 am #126546 did you use locktite when you torqued it down? very odd, but ive seen it one other time aswell ...

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:35 am #126547 yes i used locktite. locktite Red if remember correctly

|95 Civic DX|03 Silverado 2500hd|97 Escort LX

- Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:18 am #126552

yes i used locktite. locktite Red if remember correctly

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

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- Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:34 am #126554 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.

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- Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:56 am #126602 yes the woodruff key was there, i made sure of it.

|95 Civic DX|03 Silverado 2500hd|97 Escort LX