Well, finally the honda is running.
A couple bad plug wires and a couple vacuum leaks later, it starts and runs nicely.
AND NOW THE TRANSMISSION IS HOSED.
Will it ever end? Good god almighty.
11 comments Og | Uncategorized
Sunday 26 Mar 2006
I say you get a sledge hammer and charge people 50 bucks a piece to take a whack at it. Might make enough to buy her a new car.
This sounds like one of those cars that was never meant to be repaired. Now if you have the wherewithal to pull the tranny, disassemble, and do the repair yourself, I’ll drop over dead.
No, I really won’t. I’m continually amazed at the breadth of skills you appear to have. But by now I shouldn’t be shocked.
I have the ability but not the time. I’ll be trying to find a used runner. You can find them around here, from around $75 to $150
Nope, it never ends.
Okay, when you drop over dead it ends, but until then, it’s going to be a pain in the ass.
I have this practice — with computers, but it applies to all machinery — called the Cosmic Shotgun. With computers, it takes the form of formatting the hard drive and re-installing everything. Just blow it away and start over. If this sounds like too much work for any possible return, well — that’s it fer ‘im, then. (Defenestration follows.)
With cars, temporizing over trying to get an ineducable machine to operate as it ought is just that — temporizing. You need to follow the old muleskinner’s practice of applying a two-by-four to the recalcitrant — right between the eyes. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.) If that fails to get its attention, a .357 round to the engine block grants quick quietus.
Then the $50-a-whack with a sledge hammer thing sounds like a GREAT idea. And offers a chance of defraying replacement costs.
But life’s too short to box with stubborn machines. Sorry. I’m guessing that goes against your grain, but that’s the way I feel about it. The machine’s purpose is to make life easier. If that’s not on ITS agenda, then I don’t need it.
M
Heh.
Og, I’ve been there so many times it ain’t even funny. Upside is, sooner or later you’ll have fixed everything on the thing, and fixed it correctly, and be able to wash your hands of it for a while.
Take some satisfaction, however much you’re frustrated right now, in that at least you got the engine running well. That’s no small feat in and of itself.
-Aaron
Og,
How old is this Accord? Honda has acknowledged that their automatic transmissions are, how shall we put this, less-than-perfect (read: CRAP) and has boosted the warrantee on them significantly).
You might also want to check to see if there were any recalls on the model year of this car – who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky and Honda will pay for the new tranny?
Either that or get a bunch of friends together, several thousand rounds of 12 ga. 00 buckshot, video the whole event, and sell copies on the Internet???
92. And it’s a honda civic. And it’s not my choice to be fixing it, I’d have had it towed to the yard a year ago. Thankfully, the nephew is spending his cash on most of the reapirs, though I’ve had to pitch in some as well.
92 is probably beyond the warrantee in any case; however if it’s a recall it might still be covered.
From NHTSB recalls (http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/recallsearch.cfm):
Make : HONDA Model : CIVIC Year : 1992
Manufacturer : AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 94V063000 Mfg’s Report Date : APR 06, 1994
Component: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
Potential Number Of Units Affected : 191289
It can’t hurt to check and see if this was done or not. If not you might be able to get Honda to cover it.
Heck, it’s only a phone call, right?
yeah, that was just an Eclip. It was done, i just walked out and confirmed. Wouldn’t get me a new tranny, for sure.
Nuts. Oh well, figured it couldn’t hurt. . .
Why is your nephew so hell-bent on fixing it? Is it because good ol’ Unkie Og will do the repair work for free? (NOT meant as a derogatory question towards the nephew, mind you).
It seems that junking this car and buying another RUNNING car would be far more time- and cost-effective. I had a buddy who, all through high school and college, drove a succession of junkers; basically paying $500 for a car, driving it anywhere from 3 – 6 months until it died, having it towed to a junkyard when it passed, and buying another junker the next day.
One year he had to wait out the month of December because if he bought one more used car, he’d have had to pay for a Used Car Dealer license. . .