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Originally Posted by 1993CivicVX
sounds like change jingling if I go up a hill in too high a gear (so to cause the engine to lug) is that normal? I don't recall it doing this before, although engine noise was often drowned out by the rattle before having the valve adjustment, belts and rattle fixed.
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To me this sounds like pinging which can be due to bad fuel or the timing too advanced. In my VX I always had to use mid-grade fuel so that it wouldn't ping when going up hills with the RPMs low. But since this just happened after your timing belt install, it sounds to me like the timing could be off a tooth, or possibly the distributer timing is off a bit. You could try adjusting the timing with the distributer and a timing light first, and then if the car is still not running as good as it was before, suspect the timing belt being installed a tooth-off.
Good luck.
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