85 accord lx 1800
 

Hello i have a problem with my car it started with this weird grinding sound that would come from the engine on the drivers side only in the mornings when it was really cold. When the sound stopped happening the car started to sputter out when you would come to a stop it wouldn't idle at 1,000 like it should. I drove it like that for about a month and then it would die when it came to a stop and when you held the gas peddle down it would either die at about 400 rpms or it would rev way up to 2,000 rpms there was no in between. The last time i drove it when i tried to start the car it would just turn over but it wouldn't start. I need to know the possible problems. The car is carborated but the carborator is clean. The car also seemed to missfire in the low rpms especially if i could get it to idle it would misfire a lot. I was thinkin it could be the timing but it runs just fine when i go over 50 mph. It doesn't overheat or anything like that it just doesn't idle.

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Your problem is easily solved. It's your fan clutch. You must manually tighten it, and here's the DIY: (It's a 2 man job, by the way)

Have one person sit in the drivers seat and wait.

Pop the hood, place one hand on a fan blade, and the other hand on the opposite side fan blade. Then, have the other person start the car and rev the engine. It's VERY important to hang on to the fan blades once they engage. Trust me, it will do the trick. And you'll probably never have to post here again!!

(or be able to use a computer)

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lol wtf is your problem dude i got trouble with my car and i ask for help and you gotta be a duesch bag. but i'd have to say that's pretty funny

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how the ---- is it the fan clutch??



OP: check the t-belt, my GF's ma had the exact same car and the belt skipped a few teeth. the EW engines arent interference so it caused no damage. it showed the exact same symptoms. if that isnt it check ign timing.



P.S. 3bbl 12v FTW!!

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Read the whole post, ---- nugget.

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lol @ this thread

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Oh, and it's douchebag.

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GTFO you ------- taint licker, i should rip off your head and ---- your windpipe

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hopefully this guy aint serious

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yeah yeah i'm slow and didnt get the fan blade comment


now go home and beat off to the sears catalog lingerie section noob

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Don't tell me you were running straight water for coolant? LOL.

You've probably popped a headgasket, if the water pump didn't tweak itself and allow the engine to jump time.

Uh... :l

Firstly, the EW series of engine is very much interference. They are famous for breaking cams in two when a piston shoves a valve against it. Second, the EW series of engine came in the 84-87 Civics, and are the predecessor to the D-series; the 86-87 Si's EW3 was also called D15A3 in those years. What old boy as in an A18.

Re: 85 accord lx 1800
 

i swear it had EW on the info sticker under the hood ???
they look similar, funky exhaust ports, plugs in the front of the head, 12v


either way that accord engine ISNT interference

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Yeah, the valvecovers are clone units of similar design, both bearing the 12v logo. If you ever have a chance to compare them, though, you'll see the A-series is noticeably larger.

A-series is on my list of "to build" engines, can't beat cast iron closed deck blocks. There is a bolt together fangle for mating one to an 86-89 Integra transmission, which leaves a driver's mount and a halfshaft mount to be constructed. Killer for the earlier cars, eh?

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i never tried to make my 87 Si fast, it was fun to drive as is and the 12v sound is quite unique, i swear it felt faster than my 90 Si,
i am really mad that i sold it, i replaced all the plastics front to back and it had NO rust.

my plan was to run it in rally-x 2wd stock class, i would have been against old beetles, ghias, FX16s, escort GTs, etc.


why not just make an adapter to mate it to a Si trans?? then all you'd have to do is make a timing side mount

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The D16A1/EW bellhousing pattern is narrower than the later D-series. I could be entirely wrong, but it's more than just adapter plate, you might run into problems with flywheel/clutch. A plate and flywheel spacer might take care of that, but it's be hanging awful far off the last main journal of the crankshaft. You not only have to run an adapter thick enough to securely mate engine and trans, but allow for how the flywheel is supposed to tuck against the block and be slightly shrouded by the engine side of the bellhousing pattern.

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i was speaking of the MK1 Si, even so instead using the stock bellhousing cut it down enough so you can put an adapter on it and it still be stock distance from the engine. is there even enough material on the case to do that??

Re: 85 accord lx 1800
 

this is what i think of your accord http://www.mspaintporn.net/redhead%2...%20hydrant.gif

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i smell str9 nigglets