Hi I'm Adam, I drive a 94 Civic SI 1.6L Vtec 396,000km. Automatic Transmission. Yesterday while driving my car smoke started coming out from under the hood, car stalled. Pulled the plugs they melted inside the plug tubes. The cover over the timing belt melted around each of the bolts as it was plastic and a b*tch to get off. Power steering fluid came out of the resevoir and all over. I pulled the rad cap the spring had broken off of the bottom and the seal was gone. The over heating I deduced was from lack of anti freeze, as i discovered later on today.

So what I have done so far:
1) Broken off the plastic sheild that had melted around the timing belt.
2) The engine is blocked and i have taken the motor mount out and the cruise control acutator and power steering pump off.
3) the alternator belt and p/s belt are now off.
4) the plugs wires that melted in their tubes have now been pulled out with the help off the torch. The gaps on the plugs after I got them out were about an 1/8 of an inch and black and burnt.
5) NOne of the valves are bent warped they all compress and continue as normal.
6) I stole the cables and plugs out of my roomates car put the valve cover back on the car started up and run with nothing else hooked up. No blue smoke out of the exhaust. Cylinders 1 & 3 had burning on the plugs. (this could be just because we really didnt have the exact same wires and their could have been excess oil on the piston, that or I f**ked a piston ring?)

I don't believe that all of these symptoms are directly related but they all came to a head yesterday.


So what I need to know is, has anyone had this happen to themselves as well? Possible fixes and remedies or links to some help. Tommorow I am renting the puller for the pulley so I can put the new sheild on and timing belt. I've got a copy of the spec book any tips for getting the pulley off would be appreciated as well.

Please let me now if you need to know anything else,

any help is appreciated.

Cheers Adam

 

http://hondatech.info/downloads/Auto/Manuals/Civic/

that has real good manuals and really great pic details,

but damn dude you had to of let that motor get really hot, you probably have more damage than what you think, you probably have a blown headgasket now also.

 

Having the engine get so hot that it stalls due to overheating almost always means that it is ruined.