Stampie wrote: I didn't say you couldn't drive it home but for some reason I thought you were 55 years old. Now that I say that it doesn't make sense because you couldn't stay 55 forever.
35 for now
Stampie wrote: I didn't say you couldn't drive it home but for some reason I thought you were 55 years old. Now that I say that it doesn't make sense because you couldn't stay 55 forever.
35 for now
New coil coming tonight. I guess I won't take video of me changing it since nobody seems very excited about the others.
I'm following along and think you're doing great work. The most rewarding automotive stuff I've done has been similar thrashes to get someone's car back on the road who desperately needed it. I'm pulling for your success on this one!
dj06482 wrote: I'm following along and think you're doing great work. The most rewarding automotive stuff I've done has been similar thrashes to get someone's car back on the road who desperately needed it. I'm pulling for your success on this one!
Thanks dude! She's a good friend who also had some unfortunate stuff happen to her, so this will get her going for a year or so until she can get something newer, better than the $2K for a new engine they wanted. My total will be in the $130 range.
All fixed!
$130 or so, plus the gas to get it home, which was admittedly more than normal, running on FOUR cylinders. Better than the several thousand dollar estimate that she got initially.
Nice work. I like the videos too!
Well done. Your patience continues to amaze.
I wish there was a way to cock-punch the "mechanic" that told her it needed a new engine.
Nice work!!!
Nice work, dude.
Did you replace the cracked tube on that coil or just the whole coil? Some of the Nissan coils I've seen let you pull the plug holder off and replace it separately from the expensive part of the coil, wonder if Honda is the same way.
Thanks!!!
The coil is one piece and around $30 so it got replaced. The other dude, the one who took all the plugs out and put them in the footwell, probably bent it pulling it out and cracked it.
Driving home on 4/6 cylinders.
AngryCorvair wrote: I wish there was a way to cock-punch the "mechanic" that told her it needed a new engine.
Okayyyy... until the plug has beaten around long enough to destroy that cylinder and she comes back in a thousand miles with a misfire...
I have done several. Most of the time, its a straightforward fix. One, had been driven quite a distance, and the seat for the plug was beaten to death, plus most of the ceramic was gone. I told him I didn't feel good about repairing it, but he wanted it done, so I did. It fired on that cylinder for a couple of hundred miles, then blew up. He was upset, until I replayed the conversation for him, and he remembered what I had told him.
Not everybody remembers those conversations.
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