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Originally Posted by California98Civic
One tooth off can make the SOHC cars run oddly for sure. But the fix is more than a 30 min affair. Wheel, crank pulley, one engine mount, both timing covers, and the belt tensioner and belt have to come off to adust it. I id the job successfully last summer. For me, inexperienced, it took a long time, but even the experienced will need a couple or a few hours. Be sure this is the issue first by eliminating simpler possibilities first, I'd say.
EDIT: suspect the fuel system maybe too... you had cruddy air filter... how about fuel filter?
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No, you're mixing up the cars. The timing belt was changed on the Teal Civic that we got in January, AND the dealership did a bunch of things on that one, including air filter. I did the fuel filter after we got it.
On the Silver one we got last week, THAT was the one with the clogged air filter, and I changed that and the plugs, and had a mechanic change the fuel filter this week.
But as far as the Teal one ( January ) having less power than the Silver one, and idling a little bumpy, I just called the dealership where we bought the first 98 ( Teal ) Civic back in January, and told them that a couple of mechanics I know, are wondering if, when they changed the timing belt before selling it to us, it might have gotten "1 tooth off". They said that for them to run a complete diagnostic is $115 and takes a couple of hours, and if it IS that, it would be no charge to fix it. I'd also certainly hope that, if it IS that, they would waive the diagnostic charge too.
But we have to have time to drop it off with them.