Picked it up on Friday night.
Drove home through a terrible quantity of bugs.
Washed it today, swapped in my Del Sol seat, and started to make it mine.
Titanium Silver. It's a car that's been seen here before....and it's still in great shape.
Bought the drivers door handle in a factory painted matching color this morning, along with some interior garnish bits that were cracked from 179k of life.
I need to find someone selling the rear seat/trunk carpet from a 4dr. I can order it new, but it's $209, which is highway robbery. Hell, the $2.60 each for the stupid trim clips is insane, but I pay it because I'm a ***** for OEM parts :biggrin:
I also need to find someone with a factory trunk plate that's in passable shape so I can trace it. Right now my trunk is naked inside, and it's a little noisy as a result.
Oil leak from the pan. Looks like the entire front edge where it meets the block, and maybe the sides too. Could even be all the way around. A few dents on the bottom, but nothing bad enough to make the drops on my garage floor. P.O. verified it didn't leak for him, and it didn't leak on the driveway last night. Grumble.
Going to try to retorque the pan bolts and clean it up, hope it stays sealed for my drive to work tomorrow. Crossing fingers it lasts until the weekend.
Ordered the M6x1 Timesert kit. It'll be here the day AFTER my long weekend ends. Figures.
In the mean time, I sprayed things down with brakeleen and wiped them of the funk they've acquired. Then I slathered the leaking area with Hondabond.
I also put a bottle of ATP-205 in the engine. There is evidence of a rear main seal leak, and maybe the front main too (the engine does have almost 180k on it, and had a tough life for a while). This stuff is magic. Get it here:
Finally, after driving around for a day with a radio that didn't want to tune anything in at all (why do the important parts break right after you buy a used car?), I swapped in my old Pioneer Premiere DEH-P880PRS.
And I figured as long as I had the console apart, I should go whole hog and get the foglight harnesses installed. I pulled the factory fogs off of my 98 DB7 before it was totalled, and the installation was the reverse of the removal. Nice and easy. The lamps and brackets stayed on the workbench until the long weekend, since I can't find a PDF of the templates anywhere.
She's running good and strong. Almost time for pictures I think...
The leak is taken care of for now. I'm not sure if it was the Hondabond or the AT-205, but one of them worked and things are dry. I'm still going to TimeSert the block for the two stripped oil pan screws though. Trying to source a proper oil pan right now to replace the banged up one.
For what it's worth, don't leave home the next morning without having someone check your hair. I had to get an early morning haircut to remove some Hondabond that I'd picked up on the top of my head while shimmying out from under my car. That was a little embarrassing.
Found my fog light templates. I'm dumb. They were the last 2 pages in the installation PDF. Oops.
yuck, i've had the "Honda Goo" that holds the inner door liner in place get in my hair before, had to cut it out of there.... i hate that stuff... i can imagine it's the same with Hodabond in the hair too
Dammit, still leaks. Not sure if it's the oil pan or the power steering, but I think the former. Just drips, but I was really hoping to not have to park over the drip tray with this one....
Timesert kit comes on Tuesday. I'll try to get the work done the following weekend.
Thanks. I almost turned it into a "I'm so JDM I use Hondabond instead of pomade" thing but I can't pull that off. Haven't worn pomade sice my hair was spiked as fck back in the 90s.....
Hopefully pics tomorrow. F'd up my back mowing the lawn of all things and doing the chores today at home took a lot longer than planned, negating my chances for a shoot day.
I've used them a few times before, they're a dream once you get them installed. The hardest part is keeping everything straight when you're drilling the hole out and tapping it. Usually I like to throw the part on a big mill and use that as a glorified tap holder, but this one will be all about me eyeballing it. I'll try and post some pictures.
Got the timeserts in, and found 4 more that stripped at the 2nd torque step. Now I get to order a new gasket and do it all over again.
Also, while I was working, I decided to replace the cut valve cover with an uncut one I had. 2 of the plug wires came apart in my hands, and a third was pulled apart during removal. 4th is either an old OEM or an off brand, can't tell. Need to replace them all though.
The DC header the car came with has a big crack in the 1/2 collector joint. I bolted up the old stock LS header I've been carrying around for jeebus only knows how long. Worked fine, but I needed bolts and I need gaskets to seal it up.
I noticed the lower stay for the A/C hoses was missing, the adjuster bolt for the PS pump was gone, and a bunch of other small bits under the hood were AWOL. $215 at Delray Acura will get it all fixed next weekend.
Only problem is I need to drive it Tuesday morning. I need plug wires, oil pan gasket, and exhaust gaskets. Ugh. I hate paying dealership prices.
First step is to bore the hole clean. Then you counterbore or spot-face the edge of the hole to accept the flange on the Timesert. Third you thread the hole. You end up with something like this:
Thread the insert in by hand a few threads. More threads is fine too.
Oil the insertion tool (it looks like a tap, but is actually a thread-forming tool) and thread it into the insert.
Twist until the insert is fully seated
And remove the insert driver. Voila. Finished.
The plug wire issue was annoying.
So was the discovery of a bad crack in the header. The 1/4 weld is cracked all the way around, and there's a lateral crack in the #4 cylinder primary. Ugh. This one may get replaced rather than repaired depending on the bid for the welding and re-coating.
The new valve cover looks nice.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HONDA please please please remove the inserts from the studs when you pull an oil pan gasket off. Two of these were stacked on one stud. No wonder it was leaking from one end.
All the spots that were leaking that I fixed are fixed! Yay!
The front main seal is leaking. Boo! I can't get rid of the drip tray yet. That one's going to be tough to change. Almost as bad as the leaking rear main seal.
It's extra rough, because the previous owner is on here and is a really nice dude. It's just hard to accept that it was sold to me without leaks and I've found three in the last week, along with all the other things Ive found. Tough to reconcile.
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