sweet, yeah i doubt he did that right if he did it at all. lol thanx

 

Yeah that 10mm bolt is just to temporarily hold the tensioner in place. A good way I found to tension the belts is to loosen the adjuster nut and loosen the 10mm bolt that the arm pivots on and then using a 19mm socket (with the LF wheel removed) turn the crank pulley counter clockwise. The timing belt should get a lot of slack near the cam gear(s) and then tighten as the #1 cylinder reaches TDC, hold the crank pulley there and have someone tighten the adjuster nut and the pivot bolt.

 

Which bolt is the "pivot bolt", and if it's under the lower cover, how will you get access to it?

 

It's the bolt with the pink arrow pointing to it in the drawing on the first page.

 

That flat metaltensioner-holdinglever is free to rotate, even when that bolt (pointed out by the pink arrow)is tight, which it should in fact be, so there is no practical reason to loosen it.

Also, that bolt is, as I said, inaccessable underneath the lower cover when the belt-tensioning procedure is performed. (It is the upper cover that is removed prior to tensioning the belt, while the lower cover remains in place.)

Honda wrote that procedure to inform technicians the proper way to tension those belts. I think that one would be well-served to follow it exactly.