This just in - Honda can bite me.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 06/16/2016 at 11:32 • Filed to: None

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Why no, Honda, I don’t think a design that fills the spark plug holes with oil from the cam bearings and requires pulling the rocker assembly to fix was a good idea. (F22B - did this last night)

JasonStern911 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 11:56

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it’s a Honda. the thought process is that the plugs are going to be replaced much more frequently than any of the head’s internals.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:01

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Audi can bite you too, then. The FSI V6 & V8s have really cool leaky cam girdles as well, they’re a pain in the ass.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JasonStern911 06/16/2016 at 12:03

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Yes, but if it fills the exterior plug wells with oil every hundred miles enough to make the car refuse to start, replacing the plugs ain’t gonna help. It fills the plug boots until they don’t conduct, doesn’t do anything on the inside of the engine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 06/16/2016 at 12:07

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At least tell me the Audis have hydraulic lifters and you don’t have to adjust 24+ valves. Anyway, I was doing a valve-cover-and-sundry-leaks kit on this one because the oil-in-boots issue immobilized a woman in our church nearly an hour from home and we didn’t want that to continue. Spent way too long chipping the old valve cover gasket out of the groove, and the cam saddle/fill tube/whatever lower o-rings were so hard that one of them literally shattered.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:11

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The Audis do have HLAs, yes. But all the other stuff happens too. You can break the valve cover gaskets and spark plug tube seals in half.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 06/16/2016 at 12:14

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It didn’t help that this one had been overheated. Lots of tasty semi-burnt debris I had to clean off the valve cover. At least it was a stick so I could push it to advance the engine doing the valves instead of trying to reach the crank. Huehuehuehuehue

TheHondaBro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:15

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But I don’t wanna bite you.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:21

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Proper shadetree wrenching, extra points for that.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 06/16/2016 at 12:24

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I mean, it was in the shop, but reaching down into the limited space of a transverse engine’s crank pulley can blow me. It’s not like I had it on the lift.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:32

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I fucking hate Hondas for reasons of access. Same reason I hate Mitsubishis (well, one of many reasons I hate Mitsubishis). My hands and forearms have suffered them too many times. There are transverse engines that aren’t bad to work on, like VW fours until 2005, but these are not them. Says the guy raised on longitudinal fours, fives and sixes.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 06/16/2016 at 12:37

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There’s some bastard car I worked on which I don’t recall that ended me up with dozens upon dozens of cat-scratches after the job. Everything just that extra quarter inch too sharp, and one extra edge too sharp. My VW Rabbit leaned that way from time to time, but it was a diesel with A/C, so had some very bad things going on for access from the get-go.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:47

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Access to surrounding components was not exactly considered when those dealer installed AC systems went in. *shudders

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2016 at 12:59

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F20C swap when

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/16/2016 at 13:05

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Trufax: this car would be a good LeMons candidate along those lines.