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I hope my tone wasn’t negative about the cleaning method, but rather, I hope it was informative. I do a lot of lathe work.

But here is something about negativity.

When I became a significant corporate middle manager, one good boss gave me some advice. As follows. With your senior position you’ve already won, and there will be lots of staff who want to best you, compete with you, belittle you, and generally try to strut their stuff to make themselves look better than you. That good advice allowed me to be at ease with this negative behavior, and when at ease, I didn’t fight back. No need to fight back. Big bosses are by definition big targets.

ETCG has been so successful, and you’ve gotten to be the big boss of Honda and other repairs. So you will be attacked, but you’ve already won. No need to fight back. Your success is the overwhelming message that everyone is aware of. Some people can’t seem to learn to enjoy other people’s success.

Here’s a nice Fall photo to meditate with and quite the mind. If you a motorcyclist like me.

Be well……………….

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First.

Don’t use rags and your hands in rotating equipment. That lathe will tear your arm off quicker than you can blink.

Second.

If it were the rear drums squealing, I might just rap the drum with a layer of antivibration rubber.

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Good video with lots of inspection

With a little help that car will another 200 000.

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Glad to see Eric treated as a member of the “public”. It’s a great positive lesson.

Two things.

One. I’ve owned a lot of Hondas, starting in 1965 with a motorcycle. Honda has become increasing arrogant, and arrogance is a very unproductive state of mind. Toyota should buy Honda, straighten them out, and rebrand.

Two. It’s been a while since being a student of VW’s early success in the USA (Germany was unpopular after WWII). So how to sell all those Beetles in the USA. The sales formula included excellent dealerships. And this excellence was demanded and enforced by dealer performance auditors that showed up frequently to make sure things are going well. Piss off a customer and pay the price.

I expect Honda will get much worse than better over the next 10 years.

The history of the British motorcycle industry just repeats itself over and over. Only the name changes.

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Thanks guys.

I tried a few macro shots with my iphone but they’re just a mess. Another try with a different camera might be worthwhile.

And I’ll explore the yourmechanic site a bit too.

As far as I can tell, my CRV’s water pump just weeps right into the timing belt area, and f the weep is a stream, the coolant dribbles out the bottom of the cover.

I don’t hear any bearing problems in the pump area. The the seals could fail before the bearings in the pump.

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Thanks Jotmon1.

I’ve got a couple of cameras the do macro imaging.

If I can get anything instructive, I’ll post them in this thread.

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The major oil companies are perhaps more dumb than evil. And they are a human enterprise like entertainment, government, car companies, and agriculture, etc. All the strengths, frailties, and limits on ethics exist wherever humans are at play.

But economics are fully at play. Oil companies have untold billions invested in capital, and they need to get the most out of that large amount of capital. Have you priced a new refinery these days!! So you can’t throw away that capital and replace it with ethanol capital or biodiesel capital, or you’ll go broke.

Brazil has huge subsidies for ethanol which makes for waste, and check the recent performance of Brazil’s economy.

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I live on a court with a short street which totals about 10 houses.

Three cops live on the court and often park their marked cruisers on the court at some point during the day.

It’s a low crime area.

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In the world of hydraulics and presses, 20 tons just ain’t that much. Sometimes it’s just easier to drive over to a truck repair shop with big equipment.

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Did all these bad solder joints occur because they took the lead out of solder?

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The foundational hallmark of good engineering design is that everything fails at once. The lifespan of every part is identical.

For the perfect car, there tires will wear out, the engine seize, the paint blows off, the wheel bearings rumble, the serpentine belt breaks, the door locks fail (etc.) all at exactly the same moment. Not a single good part is towed to the crusher.

The Chrysler minivan was apparently perfectly engineered.

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40 years in one of the world’s largest corporations, I’ve done.

Every one of us knows that deceit is the norm and we all cringe when we hear “business ethics”.

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Viscosity is exactly a measure of the force required for an oil’s molecules to slide over one another which is to say, “flow”.

So any oil, synthetic from natural gas, synthetic from petroleum or mineral based, if they have the same viscosity, then the flow and inter-molecular forces are the same.

This means the Penzoil’s “ball bearing” theory from natural gas amounts to advertizing nonsense.

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[quote=”college man” post=144003]I would say victory. :)[/quote]

Quite right. I’ll take a victory even if dumb luck played a bigger role than accurate knowledge.

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The CRV has a black plastic box with emissions “stuff” just inboard of the left rear tire. I inspected all the hoses in and around this black box and found things to be pretty clean and the electrical connectors looking good.

But I did find this wee bit of rubber hose all split apart. This tiny hose connected to the bottom of the tank pressure transducer to a white nylon Y shaped fitting that seems to just vent to atmosphere. So I think it is the reference atmospheric pressure for the transducer. Since it goes to atmosphere, the splits shouldn’t be causing my P1456 code. But I put in a new bit of hose anyway.

I’ll keep at it……taking frequent breaks to swear and laugh.[/quote]

So here is an update guys.

Things worked out well, but I don’t really know why. Recall that it was all about my 1999 Honda CRV P1456 evap tank side code.

I filled the filler neck brimming and overflowing with gasoline and saw no leaks or gasoline dampness anywhere. So concluded it was tight.

I ripped into the black plastic emissions box that is just inboard of the left rear wheel. And thats where I found this little perished hose going from the fuel tank pressure sensor to the little Y connector, See items 7 and 8 in the attached image. The bottom part of that Y connector has a small hole vented to atmosphere, so I reasoned the cracked hose on an atmospheric vent would not be a cure. But I renewed this hose anyway.

Guess what. It cured my P1456 for about a month now, and today I passed the OBDII “ready” emissions test including the “eavp ready”. All for a 2 cent hose.

But I don’t know why this fixed the problem. Perhaps this orifice in the Y connector is some sort of air jet that blends a metered amount air into the fuel tank at a prescribed rate during the “vacuum hold” test. And maybe the split hose created too big an orifice, so I was failing the vacuum test.

If someone knows how this system works, I’d enjoy the enlightenment. Thanks

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