So this is frustrating and strange.
First, it has been hot as balls here, so I have been waiting to do anything with the car because, ultimately, I need to get my garage re-organized so that I can have the room I need to work on the Accord. So I haven't cleaned out and reorganized a lot of the stuff in the garage in quite awhile due to life obligations and the weather.
In the meantime, I have been doing weekly runs of the car to make sure it still gets run. I went to do the weekly run today and it is misfiring and coughing like crazy to the point it won't even stay running. It's weird because it was completely normal when I ran it about a week ago. No idea what changed since it is sitting in the garage.
At this point, I changed the plugs and did a quick inspection of the cap and rotor and that didn't do anything. The old plugs were definitely carbon fouled and black as could be, so it is definitely running rich. That said, the brand new OEM plugs made no change at all, so now I am thinking it is probably the fuel that is bad. I added new gas and stabilized it, but I am wondering if there was just some old bad fuel in there. They were all fouled equally, so I don't think I have a base physical mechanical issue with the engine itself, and that makes me hopeful that it isn't an injector problem.
I didn't have time today, but I'll have to start digging. I just wish it would have waited about 3-4 more weeks. It has literally been running fine regularly for 10 years. Welcome back to project car land!
First, it has been hot as balls here, so I have been waiting to do anything with the car because, ultimately, I need to get my garage re-organized so that I can have the room I need to work on the Accord. So I haven't cleaned out and reorganized a lot of the stuff in the garage in quite awhile due to life obligations and the weather.
In the meantime, I have been doing weekly runs of the car to make sure it still gets run. I went to do the weekly run today and it is misfiring and coughing like crazy to the point it won't even stay running. It's weird because it was completely normal when I ran it about a week ago. No idea what changed since it is sitting in the garage.
At this point, I changed the plugs and did a quick inspection of the cap and rotor and that didn't do anything. The old plugs were definitely carbon fouled and black as could be, so it is definitely running rich. That said, the brand new OEM plugs made no change at all, so now I am thinking it is probably the fuel that is bad. I added new gas and stabilized it, but I am wondering if there was just some old bad fuel in there. They were all fouled equally, so I don't think I have a base physical mechanical issue with the engine itself, and that makes me hopeful that it isn't an injector problem.
I didn't have time today, but I'll have to start digging. I just wish it would have waited about 3-4 more weeks. It has literally been running fine regularly for 10 years. Welcome back to project car land!
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