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Has the fuel door ever been taken off? If so, it might’ve been put back on crooked enough to where the latch extends too far into the pin housing for it to be released without extra force
A friend of mine just had the same situation with his e30 where his timing belt snapped while he was driving and immediately the shut down due to most of the valves bending out. Instead of getting it repaired he just went to Pick-N-Pull and picked up another set of heads off an e30 there, and it was as easy as unbolting the old heads and swapping in the new ones. I have a 99 2.3L Accord myself and I can tell you from experience that a set of heads from Pick-N-Pull should run you no more than $80-$100 and a few hours of your time.
Obviously this is only helpful IF it is in fact bent valves that you’re dealing with, so hopefully that’s all it is.
I thought they were different at first, but somehow a friend of mine convinced me they’re similar enough to have no major issues using the automatic harness with a standard shift. After pulling more parts off the Pick-n-Pull car today I realized that they are in fact quite different, but unfortunately the person before me decided to hack up the harness in order to remove it rather than take the extra effort and unplug it neatly, so I’ll have to find another car with a manual harness
[quote=”Dark_wizzie” post=128584] I guess to somebody that doesn’t know much about cars, having an old car is a little scary because I don’t know what sort of issues might occur down the line. 😛 [/quote]
Yea that can be a whole new set of problems (currently going through that with my daily driver). But in my experience, as long as you take care of it and follow the factory maintenance schedule, you can save yourself from a lot of headaches. Maybe even baby it more than you need to; change oil every 5,000 miles, don’t pick the revs up too high, no burnouts lol. Least fun but most effective and wallet-friendly way to own an aging car
[quote=”Fopeano” post=128590] And as long as it’s for the same F23 engine you have (I have the F23A1), the car should be fine with it.
[/quote] Okay cool that was gonna be my next question.But in terms of functionality, it should work fine if I use an automatic transmission ECU with a manual shift? Do they even have the same wiring schematics and ports? I’ve never actually compared the two side by side so I wouldn’t know
To be clear, the transmission that’s doing this was rebuilt a few months ago or you had this problem already so you installed a rebuilt one and it kept doing it?
No gloves at all, with the exception of when I’m putting a lot of force on something like a wrench and it’s just digging into my hands. Then I’ll throw on my FirmGrips with the padded palm. But anything else I prefer bare hands. You can feel things much better with your skin, like whether or not a cotter pin is straightened out and ready to be pulled through or where a small nut is when your hand’s in some deep crevasse you can’t see into. Gloves just feel too clumsy to me
Not sure why people are responding to this to be mean rather than answer your questions. But anyway, a bolt-on catalytic converter for your car would run you between $100-150, and maybe a little bit more depending on the brand. Replacing this yourself is not much of a hassle at all. I’ve done it to my own car twice, once when it went bad and once when it was stolen. The hardest part is just getting the press-fitted bolts off, which you might need a torch for (I did). If you were to buy a new cat and get it installed at a shop, on the other hand, then you already have your answer to that (price of new converter+price to install).
In terms of whether or not to retire the car, I don’t think that’s necessary. Unless you would like a new car, then that’s a whole different story. By all means replace it with something else lol. But this can be done in your garage for the price of a hundred dollars or so and a couple hours of your time, or at a shop for several hundred and the same. It’s by no means out of action, simply in need of attention.
And lastly, a sedan can be anything from $2,000-20,000, regardless of whether you’re in the bay or in the desert. It depends entirely on what you’re looking for. My 99 Accord sedan goes for about $3,000-4,000 these days, but an Accord 10 years newer would cost around $15,000.
So if you want a new car, by all means get one. But don’t feel forced to get a new one because you need a new cat, because that’s just not the case.