I was able to repair the problem with my headlights. It was actually a bad end on the aftermarket clip that fit's on the bulb. A $7.99 fix and I have an extra female end. I returned the new headlights to Amazon. Those H1 bulbs are so small and delicate and difficult to replace with the wire clips etc. Anyway I got lucky. This Honda has been amazing as far as low maintenance $$$$ are concerned.I ordered a set of TYC headlights to do the same as well - I was shocked it came with Chinese-made Philips(inked stamp marks, not the nice laser etching as the German-made ones now sold as Vosla or Narva) but the rest of the bulbs were Chinese.
I’ll swap those out with Vosla HIR2s and Sylvania/Osram side marker/turn signal bulbs.
How much of a difference could you perceive after the walnut cleaning?Completed the walnut blast of the intake valves on the Mini Cooper S.
I did a spray Seafoam treatment before, but it wasn’t enough. I pulled the intake and cleaned it out, replaced the throttle body gasket and cleaned that up as well. All new intake gaskets went on, as the ones on it were flattened.
Someone else has been in there, given the evidence of missing push fit plastic connectors, etc. I have a set of intake to shop vacuum attachments that allow for the insertion of the blast wand, the blaster from the local Harbor Freight and a load of fine walnut shells.
I set the cylinders to top dead when working on them to close the valves, did a quick view with my bore scope to see how bad it was in each. They weren’t too horrible but they were crusted up with sooty black carbon. I started in on the two cylinders with closed valves, and in about 20 or 30 seconds of walnut blasting, the crusty black valves were clean. I did them all, inspected each, and did additional blasting if I missed any.
Reassembly, cleaning and making sure the walnut shell dust and residue was gone, especially from the engine, and it started up and idled evenly. I drove it up the road and back over 4 miles without issue. Except…
I got a misfire, but I can pinpoint that to one coil that had a bad boot, and the heavily carboned up spark plugs that I didn’t get totally cleaned. They were heavily sooted up and I wasn’t going to scrub on them with a wire brush since they are platinum.
Ordered in replacements and a replacement coil since the others are fine. Almost there with this one…
It is much better.How much of a difference could you perceive after the walnut cleaning?
I had to fix a burned socket for an old co-worker. Instead of getting a Dorman 9006/9005 pigtail, I found a website that sells Delphi(Aptiv) Packard pigtails. Goofed the AWG - Toyota used 16/14ga, I got 12ga and my soldering job looked a bit rough but it’s the same connector as factory(Matrix/Corolla).I was able to repair the problem with my headlights. It was actually a bad end on the aftermarket clip that fit's on the bulb. A $7.99 fix and I have an extra female end. I returned the new headlights to Amazon. Those H1 bulbs are so small and delicate and difficult to replace with the wire clips etc. Anyway I got lucky. This Honda has been amazing as far as low maintenance $$$$ are concerned.
Looks very similar to the dipstick on my 6R140. I find I really like this style over the all-metalView attachment 123819
I checked the ATF with a DIPSTICK , which was how it was done in the old days
And I'm fairly certain I checked it correctly, I added a few ounces more to be safe, my street isn't exactly level