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It's cold out here! Last Sunday we got a whole day of rain, and then sleet, and overnight it froze into a solid layer. The salt they use on roads 'round here isn't made for that, and the whole town shut down for the week as we waited for the ice to melt. I took a walk on Tuesday and had trouble...

... I think the engine is officially broken in :lol: Reminder that this number doesn't actually matter.

Oh, and Civic got to play truck this weekend:

Rotated the tires a month ago and checked in on how the brake calipers were doing. Everything looks OK. I did notice the steering rack bellows are already torn and flinging grease. I wish I could buy some that weren't absolute junk.

I guess I'm making up for it today with some extra complexity :hithead: I have a road trip this week that's 450miles each way, so I figured I'd change the oil in the ol' Mothership yesterday. But I'm feeling a little frugal. I didn't replace the oil filter and used some cardboard-carton-oil...

Oh, and I bought a truck! :lol:

I learned something new while tinkering with my truck: you can compensate for the door sag with washers! Since the driver door on my civic is lower than the frame, it has to be slightly slammed to close it: But the sag is mostly caused by the metal in the hinges wearing away, and leaving an...

Just get a red cap and slap it over the calipers, all the cool auto manufacturers are doing it!

Got a CEL while driving back from lunch yesterday. Blink code 07, and when I found the scanner CEL code P0122 -> Throttle Position Sensor (Low). I un- and then re- plugged the connector in the engine bay, and then pressed the accelerator pedal with my foot and could see the live value go from...

Over the winter I began to notice the driver side window struggling to lower and raise. With everything else going on, I kept putting off finding the time to go out and lubricate the window tracks. Then, one day I was raising it and the window twisted clockwise toward the front of the car and...

Recently (likely beginning after the valve adjustment job) the engine began to hiccup when coming out of a stop. I'd be just getting into second gear and the engine will die for about a second, and then catch again and keep going. I should have recognized the symptoms, but I didn't and assumed...

Real life MacGyver right there :headbang:

Now that the wheel's fallen off and been put back on, I need to get an alignment, and rather than shell out $100 I tried doing it myself with the old kit at the shop. Since it's just me doing this, I tape the sensor wires onto the car, and then roll the whole car forward and back to do the...

It's an "ARES 18025" Worked OK for me. It's small enough to use in the wheel well like that, but makes mediocre flares on the line...

OK, time to tackle that last rubber brake line. I used a Dremel to remove the old flare nut: Then cleaned up the line: And put a new ASE/Double flare on it: Looks good! Except... Maybe I forgot something? Like the new flare nut? Cut the line and re-did the flare with a nut in place...

Welcome to CC. If you've got a Honda, start a thread for it!

Went back the next day and decided that I wanted to try a second powder coat on the brake parts. I learned from the first round that I could leave the blue tape on the part while it was baking, which helps keep powder from being knocked loose and falling into areas it shouldn't be. This time I...

:thumbs up Came back the next day prepared! I brought a face shield and shower curtain. Figured that if I couldn't have a media blasting box, I'd just make one with me in it. I got out a chair, set up the blasting kit, suited up with respirator mask, face shield, and hoodie hood. Then I...

I hear you. Definitely wish I had that financial discipline haha, I keep getting myself in trouble. The ultrasonic cleaner did OK-ish here. The calipers got clean enough that I could have gone ahead with the rebuild, but instead I wanted to play a little, so I picked up a Harbor Freight media...

Today we're going back to our BBQ spray-paint roots. OG Mothership kid-with-hand-tools stuff. Let's dive in! Since replacing all of those suspension components back in December, I had this nagging feeling that it was time to rebuild or replace the brake calipers and rubber brake lines too...