Hi everyone. My brother has a 2013 Honda Civic with the 1.8 Liter gasoline 4 banger and automatic transmission. He and one of his sons rely a lot on this car and between the two of them it sees about a hundred miles a day or more. I realized that it had 103,000 miles on it and began gathering up all the parts for going over the engine, and trany. Valve cover gasket (Honda calls it a head gasket, but if you look at the drawings it is for the valve cover) and Honda Bond for the corners, so we can adjust valve clearances, new NGK sparkplugs (RockAuto sells the NGK plugs at a much lower cost than a dealer or even OEMPartSource.com, and I called NGK and verified they are not fake knock-offs ), tensioner with pulley, new pivot bolt for tensioner, belt, idle-pulley, (it has one besides the one on the tensioner), water-pump (thanks for the info about the gates no longer being a long life reliable idem, we got OEM Honda parts from OEMPartSource.com), both coolant temperature sensors, hoses and clamps, knock sensor, drain and fill antifreeze with Honda fluid, drain and fill trany with Honda fluid, trany filter with new clamps, engine and cabin air filters, remove and clean EGR install with new gasket, and crush washers for oil drain and trany drain, new petcock for radiator and new O ring.
It's has 110,000 miles on it now and OEMPartSource.com shipped out the last of three orders of parts today. And we had also received parts from RockAuto. All in all about $900.00 in parts and fluids. Certainly a low lower cost than if we had bought the parts from a dealer.
I will bring all my tools to their house, and my nephew will be doing all the work, with me watching and guiding, and only lending a hand if it requires 2 people to do something. I hope to get everything done in 3 days of working on it.
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1) Anyhow, what I am wondering now is: will this 2013 Honda 1.8 Liter Unites States version be OK if it has to run on E15 gasoline? I do not know if E10 will continue to be available for several more years, or if the only choice will be E15.
I have looked on the internet and saw several different post, both saying E10 is the maximum content it can safely handle, and some saying E15 will be OK.
I tried to access the recent post here on BITOG about a list of vehicles that can safely run on E15, but I have a problem with accessing it.
2) Another thing I was wondering is if E15 was the only thing available and if E10 is the highest amount of ethanol it can handle, would running a higher octane of E15 prevent the too high combustion chamber temperatures that can cause damage?
Thanks for any significant advice regarding this concern.
Seriously,
JimPghPA
It's has 110,000 miles on it now and OEMPartSource.com shipped out the last of three orders of parts today. And we had also received parts from RockAuto. All in all about $900.00 in parts and fluids. Certainly a low lower cost than if we had bought the parts from a dealer.
I will bring all my tools to their house, and my nephew will be doing all the work, with me watching and guiding, and only lending a hand if it requires 2 people to do something. I hope to get everything done in 3 days of working on it.
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1) Anyhow, what I am wondering now is: will this 2013 Honda 1.8 Liter Unites States version be OK if it has to run on E15 gasoline? I do not know if E10 will continue to be available for several more years, or if the only choice will be E15.
I have looked on the internet and saw several different post, both saying E10 is the maximum content it can safely handle, and some saying E15 will be OK.
I tried to access the recent post here on BITOG about a list of vehicles that can safely run on E15, but I have a problem with accessing it.
2) Another thing I was wondering is if E15 was the only thing available and if E10 is the highest amount of ethanol it can handle, would running a higher octane of E15 prevent the too high combustion chamber temperatures that can cause damage?
Thanks for any significant advice regarding this concern.
Seriously,
JimPghPA