alright my father has a 02 civic gx. 195k. He bought it used from a guy that was really picky about maintence so this car has always been kept up, had the fuel pressure reg changed in dec 08. It has a really interesting problem. I have not really dug into this car at all to try to figure it out but i had to borrow it for alittle so now im trying to solve it.
Before someone says i should just take it into the shop my father already did take it to honda and all they did was want to recomend tons of stuff they had no clue if it really needed or not and basically throw parts at it instead of propperly diagnosing the problem in the first place..
At idle mostly just in drive at idle the car feels like it has a miss to it. If the a/c is on its alot worse and has even stalled quite a few times on me. When you take off from a dead stop it had a real nasty hesitation from about 5mph to about 30. It just feels like it has a nasty miss until 30 or more and then it clears up.. I know there is a tsb about a judder in the trans but im not sure if this is really comming from the trans to me it seems like its from the motor. I am also surprised this thing does not throw any codes as much as it does this problem. It did however throw a p0300 ( multiple cyl misfire) code once. Ok so times are rough and i need a good starting point here instead of just throwing parts at it. My plan is to adjust the valves this week, and check up for oil in the high pressure filter drain. I have already swapped coils out on it just because i had a set lying around so i know that is not it. Plugs are good too. Anyone have a starting point??
Thanks..
Before someone says i should just take it into the shop my father already did take it to honda and all they did was want to recomend tons of stuff they had no clue if it really needed or not and basically throw parts at it instead of propperly diagnosing the problem in the first place..
At idle mostly just in drive at idle the car feels like it has a miss to it. If the a/c is on its alot worse and has even stalled quite a few times on me. When you take off from a dead stop it had a real nasty hesitation from about 5mph to about 30. It just feels like it has a nasty miss until 30 or more and then it clears up.. I know there is a tsb about a judder in the trans but im not sure if this is really comming from the trans to me it seems like its from the motor. I am also surprised this thing does not throw any codes as much as it does this problem. It did however throw a p0300 ( multiple cyl misfire) code once. Ok so times are rough and i need a good starting point here instead of just throwing parts at it. My plan is to adjust the valves this week, and check up for oil in the high pressure filter drain. I have already swapped coils out on it just because i had a set lying around so i know that is not it. Plugs are good too. Anyone have a starting point??
Thanks..
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