Robert: I had a very similar thing happen when I replaced my Radiator... I just basically poured the coolant in, and didn't bleed it properly. So when I took it for a test drive, it sputtered, and mis-fired all over the place. It drove horribly... I was petrified that I had done something horrible to my engine (by overheating with the leaky old radiator)
Since I was in a hurry to get the radiator in (being my only car I needed to take it to work the next day) I didn't follow the proper bleeding procedure, and the air bubbles that were present in the coolant were throwing off the engine management as they passed by the coolant sensors. Thus causing my horrible spitting/sputtering/misfiring engine. Seeing as having a head gasket done requires draining coolant, and re-filling... This may be a possiblilty for your car. Or another possibility, is that the Mechanic simply didn't plug the EACV back in, or that it wasn't plugged in all the way and it fell out on the drive home. Either way, Good luck with your endeavors. -Henry On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:28, Robert K. Kuhn wrote: > As some of you recall, prior to me discovering that I had the beginning of > a head gasket leak, I was troubleshooting a rough idle condition. I had it > narrowed down to the possibility of a bad EACV. > > Anyway... I enlisted my shoppe to do the head gasket repair (which included > machining the head) and while they were at it, I had them R&R both the > timing belt and water pump (cheap insurance...). > > Picked up the car this evening and was driving home when all of a sudden I > felt the engine mis-fire. Then the Check Engine light came on and it was > acting as if I was only running on one or two cylinders. I managed to > nurse the car to a near-by Chevron station where it just would not > idle. The ECU threw an error code of 14. Bad EACV. > > So... would an EACV that's gone wonky cause an engine (under normal driving > conditions as well as load) to give the sensation that it's > mis-firing/sputtering? > > Right now, Jiggy is back at shoppe... I called AAA and had them tow it > back. I would have looked this up in my Helm but I loaned my copy to > another CRX owner the other day. :^\ > > > 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
