Originally Posted by MichaelT1960
MrChad,
Thank you for the reply. My timing belt was done at the dealer at 92,000 miles.
I know they replaced the water pump. They did not replace the tensioner...but I think they checked it when I complained about the knocking noise about a year and a half later. The service manager got in touch with me and asked me to leave it for the day so that they could check a few things. When I picked it up they had told me that everything checked out ok. I think I recall that he said the tensioner was a little loose.
The last time I drained the oil I passed it threw a strainer and did not find any particles at all.
What about "wrist pin knock"?
Michael
Hhmm, well I think the Honda has a floating wrist pin. I can't recall ever hearing of a wrist pin knock?
I'd still send the filter to a lab and have to oil analysed to see if you have any elivated levels of metals in the fluid, just in case. It should run about 20 bucks. If all the noise came after the belt change I would seriously concider having the belts and goodies redone again. Maybe the tech from the first round did something a tick off and left the belts too tight or something. I would have also never reused the tensioner it's so cheap to replace once and do it right when all the belts are out.