replaced the front hood badge on my car. took off several years ago when I was doing some bodywork, and lost the damned thing in my brother's garage. Grabbed one today as replacement since I was at a Pick N Pull anyway
What have you done to your 5th Gen Civic Today?
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Pulled my valve cover to find this..
WTF? Kinda hard to tell from the photo, but is that water in there?
Looks like water contamination to me.
All I did today was put my freshly painted valve cover on.
All I did today was put my freshly painted valve cover on.
ugh. power steering pump started getting noisy on Sunday. Today, noisy AND squeeling belt. Looks like it's time to replace. I guess 280k is a long time for a pump to operate
Who needs power steering 
apparently, not ME. Day after I posted prior message, squealing got worse, and kept trying to die when the rpms dropped suddenly (this happened while in store parking lot)Who needs power steering
Luckily, I keep tools in the car, and just removed the PS belt. Gonna have arms like Dwayne Johnson if I have to keep driving without that pump.
Cost wise, not much difference between getting a replacement pump or just swapping in a manual rack. Only difference really is in the work involved.
Is it hard to put in an manual rack? I don't even need power steering ..
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I've not looked at the FSM directions, but don't think it'd be TOO difficult. At it's most basic, you're disconnecting from the knuckles and the steering shaft/linkage. no need for the puump, lines, belt, reservoir. Actually, It's probably about the same effort as looping a power rack. Seems getting it adjusted to be perfectly centered would be the hardest part.
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I just ordered some new 16in. konig incident rims. Also got some new head lights , tail lights and fog lights. Still thinking about getting a type-r style lip set to give my (ej1?) 95 civic ex coupe a more aggressive look.
changed front brake pads today. been needing for the last couple of months, but had been holding out so I could replace with some rebuilt calipers at the same time. Well, couldn't wait anymore. Pads were worn almost to the backing plate. Sucks being broke
Wasn't today but a few days ago I bought and installed a rear tow hook
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So i got to my mechanic on my lunch break because i have a leak coming from my distributor (getting this fixed 2morrow) and he tells me that all the mechanics that work there are marveling over my car (which has seen better days cosmetically mind you) because of how great it runs having 263k miles on it. They also consider it the prime vehicle to own and build on. This made my day
that's pretty good. Mine has 282k right now, and time to change the timing belt (last changed at 190k)
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Yeah my timing belt is coming up ha
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I just put all new hoses and changed the heater core. Hoses were pretty easy but the heater core sucked
painted a spare valve cover last week, and sanded down the lettering to bare metal today (takes approx 7 days to cure). then you have to heat the thing at 200 degrees for an hour. STINKS
AAAND I can't seem to get Flikr images to appear here. Such a moron.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameswanser/8460668820/in/photostream
AAAND I can't seem to get Flikr images to appear here. Such a moron.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameswanser/8460668820/in/photostream
