new owner to 3g accords

[amomentslife]

Hey guys new to the site just picked up a clean 3g accord non running been around hondas for a while had a few boosted fun cars that's for sure , had a f23 fully rebuilt laying around so needed a shell so that's where this accord comes in its pretty clean and had a (free) tag on it carbed a20a1 like said non running I'm redoing the timing atm the belt felt a bit loose been reading up on y'alls forums about this motor if any of you can shed some light here's some pics of me getting the accord oh if you guys wanted to know it has power everything and 106k orig miles thanks in advance guys

[2oodoor]

Welcome! Nice car to start off with, you can put all the money you save on lawn mowers in to the car lol just kidding. Hey I thot grass was decriminalized out there...lol jk

I guess you know the whole fuel sys may need flushed out including carb bowl, old gas these days is bad stuff.

If the belt is just loose you can fix that without taking anything off, loosen the 12 mm bolt that holds the tensioner and turn the motor by hand a few turns to take up the slack then retighten. You can also set the belt the same way with just the top cam pully cover off, use the marks on cam pully and mark on the flywheel visable thru hole by starter/ right below dist. (TDC is scribed "T" mark thats not as visable as the painted marks)

[derolph]

Welcome to the forum. Your car sure looks good. If you want to darken some of trim (side moldings) to get a more consistent black color, buy some Dupli-Color (or other brand) Trim paint in a spray can. Of course, if you paint the trim on the car, as I did, you need to carefully mask around it and cover the area around the trim so that no over-spray gets on it.

[amomentslife]

Lol thanks guys ill try to redo timing today and see if shell fire up the po said it over heated one night turned it off and went to go grab some dinner while it cools off came back out and it'd just crank but no start he said he had number 3 cyl sparkplug pop out while driving and drove around 5 miles until he got to a parts store to replace it ugh lol I hope nothing happened to the valves? He had a locking gas cap but I have no key and the gas is maybe 2 months old with half a tank still reckon needs to be flushed? Tia guys

[gp02a0083]

welcome to our neck of the internet , just look around and ask if you got any questions!

[amomentslife]

Will do thanks so some of the threads are a bit confusing to follow but this site has a lot of info on these 3GS it's nice anyone have like a owners manual I can download I tried downloading the one that was stickied but it won't allow me to open it


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[amomentslife]

Oh just remembered something the po also stated before it started over heating that the car kinda lost power as in he gave it gas and instead of going faster it was going slower he downshifted and it picked up speed but then bogged down again any issue with that? Fuel problem maybe ?


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[gp02a0083]

Oh just remembered something the po also stated before it started over heating that the car kinda lost power as in he gave it gas and instead of going faster it was going slower he downshifted and it picked up speed but then bogged down again any issue with that? Fuel problem maybe ?


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a bunch of things COULD happen depending on the extent of the overheating issue. From what your saying it could be a few problems causing the hesitation, but first two places i would look into is the fuel filer and the cat converter. usually with a clogged cat you won't be able to go faster than say 35mph, have no power , and will bog down. Best way to check the cat converter without removing it is to run the car and check the exhaust temperatures of the cat with a IR thermometer and the surrounding exhaust parts. If the cat has an excessive temperature difference chances are its clogged or on its way out.

[amomentslife]

Once I retime it I'll def check that out and that speed sounds about right I'll get back with you guys about it thanks a lot for y'all help


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[amomentslife]

Well went to go take off the drivers wheel and found out he's got a special lug nut well all of em are and I don't have the key to take me off this sucks lol


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[amomentslife]

And the timing belt has missing teeth that's why it wasn't cranking up I really hope the valves aren't messed up


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[Dr_Snooz]

Welcome! If the car got hot and ran until it stopped, then I'd be doing a compression test first. Plan on putting that f23 in sooner rather than later.

[amomentslife]

It's not a car I need running ASAP thank god I have my jeep and my Monte Carlo just wanted to get into Hondas again and with this. 3G being free and so clean figured it was worth grabbing buy wanted to drive it for a bit see how a 4 cyl carbed engine felt lol then soon fab up some mounts and do a boosted f23 swap


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[amomentslife]

And thanks for the welcomes guys !!


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[amomentslife]

So before I left for work I checked all a valves and there within spec so I hope i got lucky with this and I can just replace belt and be on my way and for all these random postings on what I'm finding out kinda using this thread as a guide for myself lol and any input from everyone is nice

[firefighterwhite89]

Welcome from Alabama