This makes me so nervous pouring all this money into my car. All that hard work ruined by an "lol" or instagram post. Glad to hear your wife is okay. Good thing you have all the receipts for all the maintenance you just did.
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Originally posted by Grumpys93 View PostThis makes me so nervous pouring all this money into my car. All that hard work ruined by an "lol" or instagram post. Glad to hear your wife is okay. Good thing you have all the receipts for all the maintenance you just did.
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Still don't know. Maybe totaled maybe not. Will update when I know more. Still will throw new coil on it. I'm buying it back from the insurance company regardless. Just gonna send it. I'll get my money back out of it and keep the car. Buy back on these us like $300. I'll park it with my other one in Missouri at some point.
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I went to replace the hose that comes off the back of the intake manifold and goes to the throttle body and I just can't fight these cars for hours on end anymore. The cut up hands and arms laying in grease, oil and coolant are in the past. It's not worth it to hold my neck up for 2 hours fighting literally one hose clamp just to hurt for 3 days. I'm done.
It's being taken to a shop for this. I'm not putting myself through the hell it takes to do it. I've done it in the past several times but not again. I'll drive it to a shop just down the road spraying coolant and pay them $75 to maybe $200 to do it.
Insurance is fixing the rear end where it got hit. So that's good.
The oil cooler is in the way, the harness and the intake manifold bracket even after being removed it's still just a pain. I pulled the oil filter and that helped some. Still. It's one of those things I'm not doing. I've not taken a car to a shop in over a decade. Until now. While they're at it I'm having them replace the other hoses in the area. The two other hoses.Last edited by H311RA151N; 12-16-2018, 12:05 AM.
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I've got some odds and ends to take care of on this thing. It my daily.
Today I did a drain and fill on the automatic transmission. It really needs some new fluid. I think I'll do another drain and fill in a week or two. Then another following that.
All in all, there is no more debris on the drain plug than I've seen before on other CB7's. About typical for 232,000 miles.
In the future, I'm going to try to get the A/C working on this thing. That and see what other parts I have for these cars laying around new in boxes. Just slowly continue making improvements on it I guess.
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Been sitting for a while. I'm about to revive it.
Removing the intake manifold and replacing every hose it has. There are a couple that I might have to make. But that's ok. I'm done with coolant leaks on this car. At least behind the I/M. Not fun.
Using all OEM parts. And extra nuts for the I/M. Been there before several times. 10 extra ought to be more than plenty. Couple new bolts for the bracket as well.
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I replaced the hoses today. I prepped the intake manifold for removal first. Only to find after further inspection that I would not have to remove it. I discovered that the shop I took it to over winter replaced both hoses on the back of the I/M. And the only hose under it that needed replacing was the larger bypass hose.
Prepping for removal.
Located the culprit.
Verified other two hoses were replaced.
Bypass hose.
IACV hose.
IACV to FITV hose.
First time ever getting everything to go back perfect in this area including looming.
As you can see, I was running straight water through it for a while. It was leaking so much that putting coolant in it would create a hazard and be very expensive. The best bet is to stop driving it. I live within a couple miles of work and chose to do this knowing the consequences. As opposed to dumping poison all over the ground I chose to contaminate the cooling system. Yes, fixing the issue would be best however I chose not to so I wouldn't have to take off from work. Even being a manager I don't like to miss work. Period.
I'm going to have to flush the crap out of the cooling system. And the heater core and radiator might need to be replaced in the future. The water pump will most definitely need replacing now as well. I'm sure there are components starting to pit however after having extensive experience with water quality and treatment and even hydronic loop systems I know it can be overcome. The damage is done but I don't suspect a catastrophic outcome or anywhere near it. I do feel bad though but oh well. Moving forward.Last edited by H311RA151N; 07-25-2019, 05:21 PM.
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I had that bypass hose rupture once away from home. Lucky it was in pretty much the same location as you show. There was enough length to cut it flush and reattach it to get it home - no fun working on a hot engine though!90 LX 4dr 5 spd 396,014 (sold 1/1/2022) - MRT: http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=201450
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I think next I'm going to do the oil pan gasket replacement. 11251-P0A-000 is the part number for my own reference. Of course this involves removing the cross member brace and the downpipe. And I really don't like replacing the downpipe.
I will have to locate the correct crush gaskets. And the downpipe itself isn't worth putting back on. I haven't had luck AT ALL with Bosal from RockAuto. I will try Walker. On the last Bosal I installed the flex pipe section rusted in two pieces within a year and looked 5+ years old.
The timing belt and water pump still needs done as well. And the rear bumper and front driver side fender also.
Should be fun.
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