Well I did my timing belt service I desperately needed to do. Was initialing planning on dropping the whole engine to do a more in depth overhaul but time and money restraints held me back. Instead did my belt and pump and threw in a valve adjustment.
Overall job took me about 6.5 hours. Didnt run into any real snags other than dropping two of the valve cover grommets and panicking because I thought they fell into the head. Had a nasty air bubble in the block that wouldnt burp but other than that went pretty smooth. I had a rack and air tools though which helps a ton.
This is the first major work Ive done to the vehicle since Ive owned it (about 2 months now). Car is much more intimidating than it is. Other than things being a little tight nothing surprised me as far as a timing belt job goes.
Only regrets was not having a set of plugs on hand to swap in and spending 18$ on a fresh tube of hondabond that I barely used.
Final cost in parts was about 550$ using my discounts thru worldpac and ordering OE stuff.
The wiki how-to was nice to read before hand to see if there were any possible bugs to look out for. I didnt have to tilt the engine at all to do the repair is the only thing I thought was interesting, not sure why some do. I took the right upper mount out only because it made removing the back timing belt cover easier.
Overall job took me about 6.5 hours. Didnt run into any real snags other than dropping two of the valve cover grommets and panicking because I thought they fell into the head. Had a nasty air bubble in the block that wouldnt burp but other than that went pretty smooth. I had a rack and air tools though which helps a ton.
This is the first major work Ive done to the vehicle since Ive owned it (about 2 months now). Car is much more intimidating than it is. Other than things being a little tight nothing surprised me as far as a timing belt job goes.
Only regrets was not having a set of plugs on hand to swap in and spending 18$ on a fresh tube of hondabond that I barely used.
Final cost in parts was about 550$ using my discounts thru worldpac and ordering OE stuff.
The wiki how-to was nice to read before hand to see if there were any possible bugs to look out for. I didnt have to tilt the engine at all to do the repair is the only thing I thought was interesting, not sure why some do. I took the right upper mount out only because it made removing the back timing belt cover easier.
