diff --git a/pika/adapters/select_connection.py b/pika/adapters/select_connection.py
index 59e650882..ad6be6761 100644
--- a/pika/adapters/select_connection.py
+++ b/pika/adapters/select_connection.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def __init__(self, fileno, handler, events, state_manager):
         self.events = events
         self.open = True
         self._handler = handler
-        self._timeouts = dict()
+        self._timeouts = []
         self._manage_event_state = state_manager
 
     def add_timeout(self, deadline, callback_method):
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def add_timeout(self, deadline, callback_method):
         value = {'deadline': time.time() + deadline,
                  'callback': callback_method}
         timeout_id = hash(frozenset(value.items()))
-        self._timeouts[timeout_id] = value
+        self._timeouts.append((timeout_id, value))
         return timeout_id
 
     def flush_pending_timeouts(self):
@@ -271,13 +271,17 @@ def poll(self, write_only=False):
     def process_timeouts(self):
         """Process the self._timeouts event stack"""
         start_time = time.time()
-        for timeout_id in self._timeouts.keys():
-            if timeout_id not in self._timeouts:
-                continue
-            if self._timeouts[timeout_id]['deadline'] <= start_time:
-                callback = self._timeouts[timeout_id]['callback']
-                del self._timeouts[timeout_id]
+        # while loop instead of a more straightforward for loop so we can
+        # delete items from the list while iterating
+        i = 0
+        while i < len(self._timeouts):
+            t_id, timeout = self._timeouts[i]
+            if timeout['deadline'] <= start_time:
+                callback = timeout['callback']
+                del self._timeouts[i]
                 callback()
+            else:
+                i += 1
 
     def remove_timeout(self, timeout_id):
         """Remove a timeout if it's still in the timeout stack
@@ -285,8 +289,11 @@ def remove_timeout(self, timeout_id):
         :param str timeout_id: The timeout id to remove
 
         """
-        if timeout_id in self._timeouts:
-            del self._timeouts[timeout_id]
+        for i in xrange(len(self._timeouts)):
+            t_id, timeout = self._timeouts[i]
+            if t_id == timeout_id:
+                del self._timeouts[i]
+                break
 
     def start(self):
         """Start the main poller loop. It will loop here until self.closed"""