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Basics first: ’01 Honda Civic, 4D, LX model,1.7L. Roughly 135k miles. Regularly maintained, short of the 300$+ things. (not a good enough job to afford it)
Got it completely paid off, and (after a year of waiting…. long story) finaly signed over into my name completly. But had to take it through local emmissions before the paperwork was able to be completed, and came up with a few codes. Top amongst those was the P0740, and a few others due to overheating. Got the oil changed (had been working odd hours for several months straight that prevented me from getting that taken care of, either on my own or just going to a shop) and it ended up clearing the codes. A few months later I start getting idling problems when coming to a stop, feeling like it was misfiring. Checked and replaced plugs (the old ones were considerably old, but no signs of other problems), and ultimately had to replace my ELD. Fixed that problem, but the P0740 TCC code came back a few weeks or so later. Now, I have to admit, I did a rather abnormal thing for me, and ‘let it slide’ thinking it was just an intermitant problem/false read (i don’t remember why). -edit- Durring this time I had also taken it to a friends dad who is a mechanice, and it was pointed out I had a rather low idle speed. about half what he thought it should be for the type of car. (it usualy sits around 1.5krpm or so)
FF to a few more months after, and my car just dies on me. It still ran, everything was on, even the engine. But it simply got no power to the wheels.Ran like it was in neutral no matter what gear it was in. Had it hauled off to a local Transmission specialist shop, and let them look at it, atleast as much as they could without pulling it out. And I’m told that the Torque Converter is pretty much gone. It had “blown up inside and spewed it’s guts out, and ended up clogging the filter”, as they so colorfully put it. They were nice and let me leave it there for nearly a month while I tried to scrape together the 1.5-3K to fix it (and they didn’t charge, even for the tow to their shop). Now, I have it back in my driveway, front wheels off, ready to try and tackle this myself (amongst a few smaller maintenence/repair issues I was needing to do… brake system and possible front suspension overhaul/upgrades).
I do have just about all the needed tools for the job (hence the name ^^. And my name doesn’t end in Taylor 😛 ), minus some of the more expensive ones and a hoist or stand. Plus maunals and diagrams galore. But I’m looking for some more experienced input. So any advice, guides, help, etc. would be great.
Also, due to its age (and I’ve been reading how this particular year/model’s trans has an issue of dieing around 150k.. I do deliveries, so I’d guess it just sped up the process), I’m looking into possibly doing a rebuild on it as well. I watched your video on the gear/clutch replacement, ETCG, and was wondering if you could possibly elaborate on the whole process a bit.
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