my brother took the civic on friday and as he was driving he heard a sound like something was stuck in the flywheel. he pulled over and saw that the pulley was loose, so he Tightened it as much as he could by hand. he drove it to a nearby parking lot and came home and told me what happend. he said we should get new belts and a new pulley. i went their with my brother with those things. when we got their and took the pulley off( it was hard to take the bolt off because the boly cross threaded in the crank) when we took the pulley off we saw that the bracket where the little key went got all messed up. a small peice fell off so now i need a new crank. why would the pulley come loose all of a sudden? i have been driving on the new motor for months. is their any way to fix it without taking the motor out?

i need help bad.

 

if the slot is messed up then you need to replace the crank. anyways i would replace it. anything you do to it now will throw off the balance. next time use thread lock and the bolt wont come loose

 

what i don't understand is why would it come loose all of a sudden?

 

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it could have just jarred loose or got looser and looser everyday, then just fell out by hitting a bump in the road or something. my motor mount bolts did that once!!

 

What motor? This seems to be an issue once in a while on D15B's

 

its a b16.

 

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Time for a B18C bottom end

 

no, its time for my mom to say i have to sell the car because she already wanted me to sell the car for a while. now shes just as good as gone .

 

damn

if you have to man, drop a cheap swap in it (ie d15/16)... whatever it takes to keep it from getting sold

 

same thing happen to my friends gsr...it didnt mess up the crank but somethin else happen and it was in a shop for a couple weeks

 

maybe the cross threading of the bolt had something to do with it....