Trip went great... I'm in the process of getting ready to start uploading all of the pics from the trip. I took around 300 pictures and I have been in the process of naming them and getting them sorted. Just finished that last weekend.
I clocked a little over 5500 miles on my trip from Texas to Vancouver and back (while passing through the Grand Canyon, as well). My green CRX is now sitting in the garage with a much-needed rest with 176,6xx miles on the odometer. I have a slight hesitation problem that developed after going through some mountains on the way up through Washington state. I had been on the turbo for quite a while and now my car has been acting funny ever since. I am going to go in and replace some more parts to be sure. I gave the car a tuneup when I got up to Vancouver, thanks to the help of Wil McQueen... He got me some tuneup parts for a bit of a discount with his parts store connections. Unfortunately, the car had its weird stumbling problems all the way home, but it made the rest of the 3k mile trip without any other problems other than that. Going to start looking at possible bad O2 sensor, possible vacuum leaks, etc... It doesn't appear to have a blown headgasket -- coolant level is fine, and there's no weird brown crap in the radiator. Car only got close to overheating once on the trip, when I was climbing a lookout point road over Big Water in Utah... There was a good 40-50mph tail wind as I was climbing this rough dirt road and it was around 110F outside at the time. My dumbass forgot to turn off the A/C as I was climbing this hill at 10mph in 2nd gear, so the temp gauge started to shoot up just as I was getting to the top. Luckily, I got to the top and just pointed the car right into the headwind and turn on the heater. In less than 5 minutes, the temp gauge was down below where it was before I even started climbing the hill in the first place (gotta love having a massive new dual-core radiator). I'll upload more pics tonight and post a link to them. Does anybody have a good thumbnail program, or something I can use to resize these pictures down en-masse? Ricky On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Robert K. Kuhn wrote: > On 11:01 AM 07/15/02 -0500, Ricky Crow said... > > >Sometimes the type of tire, tire pressure, and amount of tread on the > >tires all have a difference in the steering effort. May want to try a > >different brand of tires, or if those are getting worn down, newer tires > >might help out. > > > >Ricky > > > > > > > >On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > my new 88 si is much harder to steer at low speeds than i remember my > > other > > > one being. the wheel just takes so much freaking power to turn. if i dont > > > ever fix this problem....at least i'll be a little more built because > > of all > > > the steering excercise! > > > any ideas? > > > > > > thanks, > > > ronnie > > > > > > I agree with Ricky -- Tire pressure comes to mind first. But you also > don't want to over inflate the tires. Check the recommended tire pressure > which should be on the side of the tire. > > So, Ricky, how was the drive? Pics? Since you didn't give me a call I > assume you had no mechanical problems.. :^) > > > Robert K. Kuhn > CRX Owners Group President (http://www.crx.org/southcal) > > 1990 Honda CRXsi (http://drive.to/jiggy) > ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla) > >
