H22a 95 civic
I just took the cams off and timing belt so I could put the back cover on.

Now the belt slides 1/8 inch off the cam gear and is getting eaten up by the balance pulley !! Everything is tightened to spec.

and please changing the tensioner from auto to manual is an option but I don't see why this one won't work.. ideas?

 

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Have you tried pulling the tensioner off to see if it went bad?

 

I've decided just to go ahead and buy a kit from importrp.com

all oem parts included to swap auto mechanism to manual.
$89.00 + shipping + new belt runs me somewhere around $150

Seems cheaper to go through Importrp.com than to go through Honda.

 

I would have to say that it could be the after market cam gears. Either way that belt must be changed.

 

your auto tensioner could be weak as well

 

this keeps happening. I've seen like 3 threads this last couple weeks about the same thing occuring. My only suggestion is to check all pullies and gears for trueness on the vertical plane one way or another (in comparison to the block of course). If any of them are off even a bit (wibble wobble) the belt is gonna do something other than rotate on a even and normal plane

 

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The most common issues that cause belt walking off the pulleys are worn/miss aligned tensioner/ idler pulleys.

 

it was mentioned in another thread with this problem that this is normal behavior and the balance shaft pulley is there to hold the belt on. I guess on b-series motors it is just a washer that does that job, but on the H22 they used the balance shaft pulley. don't know for sure how true this is, but thought i'd pass it on.