Timing belt replacement: Honda Civic SOHC, D15Z4, 5 1.4 (D14A3, D14A4)
Step-by-step timing belt replacement for the Honda Civic SOHC, D15Z4, 5 1.4 (D14A3/D14A4): 88 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check.
Workshop procedure for HONDA — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform code 1.4I
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Unless otherwise advised by the manufacturer, the following procedures are recommended:
- Disconnect the battery
- Align the camshaft gearwheel marks as shown
- Remove the front wheels
- Loosen the adjustment bolt
- Remove the air-conditioning drive belt
- Remove the alternator belt
- Remove the valve cover
- Remove the timing belt upper cover
- Use a trolley jack to support the engine
- Note: Put a wooden block between the sump and the jack
- Remove the crankshaft pulley
- Remove the dipstick tube
- Remove the timing belt
Installation and checks
- Check that tension is applied to the belt
- Tensioner pulley:
- Tighten the tensioner pulley bolt
- Fit the timing belt lower cover
- Refit the timing belt upper cover
- Fit the crankshaft pulley
- Turn the engine 6 revolutions by hand
- Tighten the crankshaft pulley
- Check the camshaft timing marks
- Note: Repeat the procedure if the marks are outside the specified area
- Refit the engine support
- Refit the power steering fluid reservoir bracket
- Remove the jack
- Refit the dipstick
- Tighten the alternator
- Refit the air-conditioning drive belt
- Refit the idler pulley bracket
- Refit the air-conditioning drive belt idler pulley
- Refit the power steering pump belt
- Refit the power steering pump
- Refit the front splash guard
- Refit the front wheels
- Reconnect the battery
Other HONDA procedures
- Honda Accord 2.0 K20A6/K20Z2 timing chain replacement
- Honda Accord 2.4 K24A3 timing chain replacement
- Honda Stream 2.0 K20A1 timing chain replacement
- Honda FRV 2.0 K20A9 timing chain replacement
- Honda CRV engines 2002> timing chain replacement
- Honda CIVIC SOHC 1.6 D16Y3 timing belt replacement
- Honda ACCORD SOHC, 1985 timing belt replacement
- Honda PRELUDE SOHC, F22A2 1997 2.0 timing belt replacement
- PRELUDE SOHC B20A3, B20A4 1988
- Honda PRELUDE DOHC, 1993 2.3 H22A2 timing belt replacement
Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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