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05-07-2002, 12:56 PM
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Repost Wagon
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A pain in the rear called honda
why does honda have to make it so diffcult to work on their cars ? i was taking my engine mount out this morning and guess what ? it took me the hole morning just to get 2 screws out. it was a fairly easy job until i got to the bottom screw when i relised that i have to turn it from the right side of the mount, where all the cooling and oil lines are. it took me 3 hours just to have the thing unscrewed, when very simple it could have been put on the left side of the mount and in 5 minutes out, done, kaput. i wonder how the mechanics are dealing with crap like this. oh boy !! . i'll put in on thursday or friday after the custom mount dries out. and i wonder what am i gonna run into this time ?
sorry for the long post but i needed to vent it out
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05-07-2002, 01:00 PM
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Thought Police
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its cause we have compact cars. i knwo what you mean, i have needed to get my hand under the intake manifold to grab a droped screw because i didnt have enough room by the TB. thats was definitaly a pain
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05-07-2002, 02:33 PM
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after my suspension gets done i won't touch it ( at least that's what i'm saying now)
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05-07-2002, 07:47 PM
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Re: A pain in the rear called honda
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i work do a mentorship at a mechanics and i can tell you hondas arent the hardest to work on. if the engineers who design the cars had to fix them it would be a whole different story. |
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05-08-2002, 07:09 AM
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Sounds like you guys just need the right tool for the job. i have no problems at all. If you want a pain is the ass work on an Eclipse.
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05-08-2002, 08:26 PM
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work on a cadilac if you want to have fun. they suck so much |
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05-08-2002, 09:48 PM
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Go change the spark plugs on a LT1 F-Body and then complain. That hurts just thinking about it.
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05-08-2002, 10:05 PM
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Repost Wagon
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is the trans am a v6 or v8. i know on some v6 gm's the plugs are accesible only from underneath the car.
what i was saying is that if the screws were from the other side i wouldn't have any complains about it. anyway it was easy but a full morning just to take 2 screws out is a lot of pain.
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05-09-2002, 09:46 AM
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Repost Wagon
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Update
i put the mount back in today and it took me less than one hour. i took the car for a testdrive and it seems ok, not a lot better than begor but i did not notice major engine movement in the bay. also i do not have any wheel hop when trying to move on wet asphalt. i gunned the mofo to the redline, and no hop. i guess that's a good sign.
one more question thou: does it make any difference if i do not have the heat shield on my manifold ? i really don't feel like putting it back on if there are no downsides of that.
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05-09-2002, 04:13 PM
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put the heat shield on or you might melt your fan
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05-09-2002, 07:52 PM
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Hondas are alot easier to work on then a lot of other cars..
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Ill second that... Especially AWD Turbos.. 
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05-09-2002, 10:08 PM
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Thought Police
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the new celicas arnt nice either. installed a CAI on my friends.. definitely more painfull than mine
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