I have picked up a sweet 87 accord in a trade. 193K miles.
Right to business:
Exhaust leak from front of car, pretty major. I think it is the exhaust manifold
Squeaky steering, bushings need greased.
Pass side front tire sounds like bearings in a tin can over bumps. Wheel bearing suspected.
Now the big issue:
It seems that the hotter the temp gets the crapppier the car runs. I have huge missing to the point where on the way home it wouldn't go over 20 MPH. It ran great on the test drive and seems to have gotten worse over the last few days. When I first started the car (when I was going to buy it) it smelled of burning from the exhaust manifold where it sits against the engine (top of flange) then went away and left some cooked black crud. Maybe it was some spilled oil or something but I do have a hell of a exhaust leak.
Car sat for 3 months before I got it started. I'm going to do the usual (plug, dizzy cap, rotor, PCV, vac line check, seafoam, carb cleaner, fuel filter(s), and flow check). Going to throw in some NGK V powers. Plug wires have been changed.
The weirdness: it seems like someone has screwed with the dizzy's timing quite a bit, the bolt is stripped and there is notched and paint marks indicating timing. The car was advanced to the point where it was idling @ 2000RPM so I set it back to factory. (It may of been retarded, which ever way down (clockwise looking towards driver side from pass).
Apart from checking vac hoses and fuel pressure/flow, any suggestions? I'm going to take to a muffler shop to replace exhaust this weekend. I''m keeping ahold of my subaru for the time being until I get the bugs out of this honda.
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