Calgary & Alberta Fit Owners?
#1202
Quick question, I have a friend with a Prelude who is getting 25% lower compression on two cylinders. What is the most likely outright cause? Car has like 100K on it, but he has a pretty heavy foot.
#1204
3 things can cause lower compression:
leaky piston rings (usually on car that run very rich or have high kms)
blown or blowing head gasket (from overheating or high stress)
bad valve seals/bent valves (usually from either over reving the engine or from high mileage)
A leakdown test will tell you guys where the leak is.
#1205
I usually havn't had issues with the rings until around at least 175K on other makes of cars, are Honda's not as durable? What is the story?
#1206
100k is pretty low to start havin compression issues.
3 things can cause lower compression:
leaky piston rings (usually on car that run very rich or have high kms)
blown or blowing head gasket (from overheating or high stress)
bad valve seals/bent valves (usually from either over reving the engine or from high mileage)
A leakdown test will tell you guys where the leak is.
3 things can cause lower compression:
leaky piston rings (usually on car that run very rich or have high kms)
blown or blowing head gasket (from overheating or high stress)
bad valve seals/bent valves (usually from either over reving the engine or from high mileage)
A leakdown test will tell you guys where the leak is.
#1207
is the car running rough and is anything coming out of the tail pipe? I would say it's probably valves or the headgasket unless he did very very irregular oil changes and let the oil stuff go for way too long!
#1211
True most for Hondas---but sometimes the odd one is buggered---who knows the motor could have being abused ---such as poor maintenance long periods of none use whch leads to corrosion of internals--etc.
#1212
He is renting a compressor this weekend to test it, I guess I will find out when I get back.
haha, I am totally on the fence after doing all my Engineering in imperial for the last 7 years I still use KM for cars... but I use inches and feet for every other measurement! My new client is Metric... has been driving me crazy!!
Last edited by Sugarphreak; 04-17-2008 at 11:33 PM.
#1217
Good news, brakes feel really nice now that I have been able to work them in a bit. Car feels like it can come to a stop much quicker, those brakes feel like glue when you stop.
Last edited by Sugarphreak; 04-23-2008 at 01:02 PM.
#1220
i just happen to be in TO this week..the weather is +25, no snow and the people here have been very nice...so if you could hold off dissing them until i get back on friday that would be very nice....lol by the way i have'nt seen 1 modded fit yet? what's up with that? only civics...