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Just wanted to state that the flush of old and new Honda ATF Fluid made a difference. 145k miles now and still going strong although last night I got worried for a sec when the Battery light came on for a sec at a stop sign. Battery is only 1 yr old so its not that. When i got on the gas to go I heard the belt slipping and when the belt stopped slipping the red battery light went out so i am hoping “fingers crossed” that I am not going to be replacing an alternator in the near future. Original 15 year old alternator so it can go at any time. At least its location seems to be easy to get to vs the one that was buried on the 1997 Mazda 626 DX that I use to own until it rotted out at 160k miles and the fuel pump putting out low pressure to fuel rail ( not filter issue ) was the final decision to give it to salvage yard. At least this 1998 Honda Civic EX is worth putting money into as long as it doesn’t exceed 50% of its worth. If it lost a transmission or had anything serious like punch a rod thru block or main bearings etc it would be gone, but if head gasket ever goes, I’d take that on and hopefully not be replacing a warped head. There is a great guy who has a machine shop 30 miles away that can plain heads and inspect for issues. Replaced them before, just not on a Honda yet!
Just wanted to state that the flush of old and new Honda ATF Fluid made a difference. 145k miles now and still going strong although last night I got worried for a sec when the Battery light came on for a sec at a stop sign. Battery is only 1 yr old so its not that. When i got on the gas to go I heard the belt slipping and when the belt stopped slipping the red battery light went out so i am hoping “fingers crossed” that I am not going to be replacing an alternator in the near future. Original 15 year old alternator so it can go at any time. At least its location seems to be easy to get to vs the one that was buried on the 1997 Mazda 626 DX that I use to own until it rotted out at 160k miles and the fuel pump putting out low pressure to fuel rail ( not filter issue ) was the final decision to give it to salvage yard. At least this 1998 Honda Civic EX is worth putting money into as long as it doesn’t exceed 50% of its worth. If it lost a transmission or had anything serious like punch a rod thru block or main bearings etc it would be gone, but if head gasket ever goes, I’d take that on and hopefully not be replacing a warped head. There is a great guy who has a machine shop 30 miles away that can plain heads and inspect for issues. Replaced them before, just not on a Honda yet!
Could use access to Mitchell again. I use to have access to Ondemand5.com thru an employer that I was their IT guru for up until leaving there in 2009. Use to look up all my auto info and get lots of good info as well as be able to look up how many hours certain jobs are charged, so that i could weigh doing it myself or having one of my friends at the garage do it. They charged by whatever Mitchell estimated so if it said it was 3.2 hrs and took 2.25 hrs, they had to charge 3.2 hrs for profitability. I also had them set up with Napa Tracs which i had to support the software and database etc, as well as their NHOST Inspection Cart http://www.nhostservices.com/ which was a kiosked mode windows xp computer and I had to hack into it once with a custom autorun CD to be able to install a HP printer in place of the failed Canon printer. ( I got told not to do that again in a nice way. They dont like people messing/hacking into inspection carts ). But we had a line of cars to inspect and at $45 a pop with the state getting $25 of it, it had to be done to make money and keep customers happy. =)
Could use access to Mitchell again. I use to have access to Ondemand5.com thru an employer that I was their IT guru for up until leaving there in 2009. Use to look up all my auto info and get lots of good info as well as be able to look up how many hours certain jobs are charged, so that i could weigh doing it myself or having one of my friends at the garage do it. They charged by whatever Mitchell estimated so if it said it was 3.2 hrs and took 2.25 hrs, they had to charge 3.2 hrs for profitability. I also had them set up with Napa Tracs which i had to support the software and database etc, as well as their NHOST Inspection Cart http://www.nhostservices.com/ which was a kiosked mode windows xp computer and I had to hack into it once with a custom autorun CD to be able to install a HP printer in place of the failed Canon printer. ( I got told not to do that again in a nice way. They dont like people messing/hacking into inspection carts ). But we had a line of cars to inspect and at $45 a pop with the state getting $25 of it, it had to be done to make money and keep customers happy. =)