Timing belt replacement: Honda Civic SOHC with crank sens 1.5 (D15Z8)
Step-by-step timing belt replacement for the Honda Civic SOHC with crank sens 1.5 (D15Z8): 89 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 codes 1.5I, VTEC
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
Don't miss
- Remove the power steering pump but do not disconnect the lines
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Socket wrench:
- Unless otherwise advised by the manufacturer, the following procedures are recommended:
- Cylinder head:
- Remove the front wheels
- Remove the power steering pump but do not disconnect the lines
- Check the belt(s) for cracks, fraying, wear and oil contamination
- Remove the idler pulley bracket
- Loosen the adjustment bolt
- Remove the air-conditioning drive belt
- Loosen the alternator bolts
- Use the special tools
- Remove the valve cover
- Turn the crankshaft anti-clockwise by 3 teeth on the camshaft gearwheel
- Use a trolley jack to support the engine
- Loosen the crankshaft pulley
- Remove the timing belt lower cover
- Remove the crankshaft position sensor
- Loosen the tensioner 180°
- Turn the tensioner away from the timing belt
- Remove the timing belt
Installation and checks
- Check the tensioner and idler pulleys; renew if necessary
- Fit the timing belt lower cover
- Turn the engine 6 revolutions by hand
- Remove the engine support
- Check the crankshaft timing marks
- Check the camshaft timing marks
- Note: Repeat the procedure if the marks are outside the specified area
- Refit the engine support
- Refit the alternator belt
- 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
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- Honda Stream 2.0 K20A1 timing chain replacement
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- Honda CRV engines 2002> timing chain replacement
- Honda CIVIC SOHC 1.4 D14A2/D14A5 timing belt replacement
- Honda CIVIC SOHC 1.6 D16Y2 timing belt replacement
- Honda CIVIC SOHC 1.5 D15Z3 timing belt replacement
- Honda CIVIC SOHC 1.6 D16Y3 timing belt replacement
- Honda ACCORD SOHC, 1985 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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