I have a 95 Civic with 250k miles on it. The timing belt was changed about 25k ago.
Car has been running great with no problems.
I got in the car and started it up, ran for a couple of seconds, then died. When I tried to start it again, it seemed to have no compression. It was a sure sign to me that the timing belt went again.
I tore it down and replaced the timing belt. It did look like it was out of time by one tooth on the camshaft.
Put it back together and it still does the same thing. I rechecked the timing and everything is on. The crankshaft is on the timing mark. There are 3 marks on the crank pully and I set it to the middle mark. The camshaft has the UP pointed up and the two horizontal marks are lined up with the head. The distributor rotor is pointing to #1.
I'm stumped. How could it not be the timing? I checked to make sure everything is turning (in case the camshaft broke) and all looks good.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help. Mike