For those that recall, I had some problems which I thought was due to a
bad EACV or a possible blown head gasket.
I want to thank Jason Ustica and George Freeeman for your replies (and
George for the really high tech how-to on how to construct a tool for
checking to see if coolant has seeped into the cylinders).
Anyway... I've determined that I've got the beginning of a leak due
to a head gasket. After calling around to friends, peers and other
Honda repair shoppes, all highly recommended that I have the head and
block resurfaced. I got quotes ranging from $500 up to $1K.
This put me at a precipice. Repair, spend some additional money and
do a B18 or worse, sell Jiggy "As-Is" (long
story...).
After much thought, I decided to go ahead and have my shoppe do the
repair (including the machine work needed). I believe when all is
said and done, it will be close to $600 (USD) - Tax and all that
stuff... :^P
Oh, BTW, I also picked up a 2001 Honda Accord LX two nights ago.
:^) That too is a story in itself and I'm not sure if we're going
to keep it (it belongs to my parent's and it has about 8K miles on it -
very pristine - just wished they had spent the extra bucks and gotten the
EX or V6 EX ;^) ). Anyone know of any good Accord
groups/people?
Robert K. Kuhn
CRX Owners Group President
(
http://www.crx.org/southcal)
1990 Honda CRXsi
(
http://www.hooligan.cc)
ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla)
Alpine Drive (San Diego County) - December,
2002
http://www.crx.org/southcal/events.html
Or...
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=339727