A20A1
07-24-2005, 02:10 AM
hey im in need of some serious help
Hey i was wanting to know if u can give me some help. u seem to know what ur talkin about and i feel i've started enough threads with my problems. I have an 87 Lx automatic. I've taken it to 2 shops and they each have had it a week and neither of them got it running right and they seem like they seem like they r more bothered by it then tryin to fix it. The last shop i took it too told me my 4th cylinder has has low compression (im thinkin it might be a bad head gasket job by the guy i bought it from everything else he told me he did is not right). They also said my my and cap and rotor is arcing or distributor if that makes sence and said i should get new plugs wires and cap and rotor all oem from honda. Just bought new bosch platinum plugs and borg waner 7mm wires. So i probably will get the oem cap and rotor. The main problem is bad idle with a/c on and i've messed with the a/c control screw quit a bit with just frustration as the result. The idle even without the a/c seems inconsistant at different times of the day. Sometimes the fast idle doesnt even engage when i start the car after its been sittin for a good while the temp guage isnt even at the lowest mark. I messed with the a/c idle screw yesterday and it was working good with the a/c on and everything was looking good then when i got off work it was completly different. I was thinking maybe the spring loaded screw was shaken back out from the engine shasking. I did some thread searches on alternator problems and they sounded kinda like what i was having so i had the battery and alt tested at autozone they said the alt was good but the battery was bad so i switched the battery with my other 88 accord with an optima yellow top and nothing changed at all. I got no clue whats goin on. I still think the alt might be bad cuz anything i use electrical at night even the brakes causes the lights to dim slightly and a very slight drop in rpms(u have to look close to notice the rpm drop) I was drivin to work today after messin with the a/c idle screw and got the rpms to go up a lil but pretty much stayed steady when i turned the a/c on and i was pretty happy about it. The wire that goes o my compressor clutch i believe has a short in it or something cuz sometimes the compressor wont engage and then if u touch the wire is will click right on. So when i was goin to work i guess the wires lost connection again and my rpms were surging between 1500 and 1800-2000 rpms when coasting and slowing down. Then when i put it in park at work to look at the wire the idle in park jumped to 4000!!!!!!! I had to turn the car off in drive. I went back home and unscrewed the a/c idle screw a good amount and and the idle stayed at about 1000 in park. Then commin home from work the idle was about 800rpms without a/c the compressor wire is actin up again and so i messed with the wire again and moving the wire doesnt work anymore so now the compressor doesnt engauge at all. It did before i left the parkin lot at work and the a/c stalled the car in park. Man i just dont know what to do and i see how it is with the shops i took it too and i dont wanna pay more money for almost nothing fixed or just to mess up worse than before. If u could try to walk me through some things to do or check or maybe help me out through trouble shooting this i would appreciate that a lot.... Thanx in adavance for anything u could come up with...
Hey i was wanting to know if u can give me some help. u seem to know what ur talkin about and i feel i've started enough threads with my problems. I have an 87 Lx automatic. I've taken it to 2 shops and they each have had it a week and neither of them got it running right and they seem like they seem like they r more bothered by it then tryin to fix it. The last shop i took it too told me my 4th cylinder has has low compression (im thinkin it might be a bad head gasket job by the guy i bought it from everything else he told me he did is not right). They also said my my and cap and rotor is arcing or distributor if that makes sence and said i should get new plugs wires and cap and rotor all oem from honda. Just bought new bosch platinum plugs and borg waner 7mm wires. So i probably will get the oem cap and rotor. The main problem is bad idle with a/c on and i've messed with the a/c control screw quit a bit with just frustration as the result. The idle even without the a/c seems inconsistant at different times of the day. Sometimes the fast idle doesnt even engage when i start the car after its been sittin for a good while the temp guage isnt even at the lowest mark. I messed with the a/c idle screw yesterday and it was working good with the a/c on and everything was looking good then when i got off work it was completly different. I was thinking maybe the spring loaded screw was shaken back out from the engine shasking. I did some thread searches on alternator problems and they sounded kinda like what i was having so i had the battery and alt tested at autozone they said the alt was good but the battery was bad so i switched the battery with my other 88 accord with an optima yellow top and nothing changed at all. I got no clue whats goin on. I still think the alt might be bad cuz anything i use electrical at night even the brakes causes the lights to dim slightly and a very slight drop in rpms(u have to look close to notice the rpm drop) I was drivin to work today after messin with the a/c idle screw and got the rpms to go up a lil but pretty much stayed steady when i turned the a/c on and i was pretty happy about it. The wire that goes o my compressor clutch i believe has a short in it or something cuz sometimes the compressor wont engage and then if u touch the wire is will click right on. So when i was goin to work i guess the wires lost connection again and my rpms were surging between 1500 and 1800-2000 rpms when coasting and slowing down. Then when i put it in park at work to look at the wire the idle in park jumped to 4000!!!!!!! I had to turn the car off in drive. I went back home and unscrewed the a/c idle screw a good amount and and the idle stayed at about 1000 in park. Then commin home from work the idle was about 800rpms without a/c the compressor wire is actin up again and so i messed with the wire again and moving the wire doesnt work anymore so now the compressor doesnt engauge at all. It did before i left the parkin lot at work and the a/c stalled the car in park. Man i just dont know what to do and i see how it is with the shops i took it too and i dont wanna pay more money for almost nothing fixed or just to mess up worse than before. If u could try to walk me through some things to do or check or maybe help me out through trouble shooting this i would appreciate that a lot.... Thanx in adavance for anything u could come up with...