head gasket blew on the honda

[vr4]

well....its a good thing you destroyed those bolts.

you cant reuse them on hondas.

[DCIV]

oh really? I tried to find that out, no one would answer that question. Anything else I should know steve?


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[vr4]

check the head for warpage. its pretty easy to warp them on a honda. ill post up the torque specs and sequence tonight.

95 accord right?

[DCIV]

yes, thankyou steve.


Coop

[i3igpete]

i ran my integra bone dry a few times when i was too lazy to replace a leaking radiator. completely pegged hot and NO steam when i took the radiator cap off . still runs like a champ and gets 30mpg!

[DCIV]

Yeah I was goign to do it right and take it and get it milled. Now I am going to go up fri and if I get it compleatly off before lunch then I will take it someplace while I wait. If not then its just getting a new headgasket and fingers crossed. At least this will get it out of pauls driveway and back home.....I hope.


Coop

[DCIV]

Got the head off and took it to a machine shop to get level. Cool place, lots of old school things going on in there. I got to watch how they do it and they were really cool, answered any questions I had, and even let me play with some of the tools. The heads were deff warped. He showed it to me. Now I just need to put it back on. What do you all know about copper spray.


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[DCIV]

Put everything back together but couldnt get the damn crank pully bolt off to put the timing belt back on correctly. I guess I have to take the starter off and put a breaker bar on the flywheel to hold it so I can get that damn bolt off. Sucks that everythign is done but that and I had to go home with out fixing it.


Coop

[vr4]

holy shit i completely forgot about this. i posted that at work and cant post pics from there.


1. youre likely reverse threaded for the crank pulley. most hondas were.
2. youre going to need 1 HELL of a half drive impact to break it off. they are on there fucking TIGHT.

[DCIV]

Yeah I was using an impact and asked a friend with me, who just changed all his belts, if it was reverse threaded and he said no. I tried both ways either and it never let loose. Its to damn cold today to go back up and fix it. I was hoping paul would time it and then drive it here when he came to help me with my car but thats asking alot.

On a side note we did finish his tt conversion last night and started it up. http://3svideo.vidiac.com/video/a2a7...0600cda221.htm He is happy. I had to give him things off my damn engine to get his going though. Now I need those parts.


Coop