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lupinus:

--- Quote ---I think my "apparent knowledge" pretty much speaks for itself. As for my ASE cert, how many of the blocks have you tested in? I don't even think I used it to justify any thing, just a plain simple matter of fact. A relatively short time spent with google and about the same time reading, and you will find everything I said to be correct.
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Actually...none.  But I still know a certain bodily orifice from a hole in the ground and enough to know when someone else doesn't.  Practice does not make perfect, and if I had a dollar for every time I heard a mechanic say something completely wrong I'd be a very rich man today.

Rust?  Let me guess....about as much as anything else?  Just for clarification these wouldn't be rusting away in parts of the country they throw a few inches of salt down at the mere hint of snow would it?

seeker_two:
Have we gotten independent verification on that pot-metal thing yet? If so, I'll start looking for a replacement for my 1991 Nissan Frontier that hasn't had any mechanical problems in its 150K-mile life and that I just replaced all the belts & plugs....don't want to end up driving something that won't last for the long run, do I?.....





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Gewehr98:
Let it go folks.

ThrottleJockey can't respond, anyway.

RocketMan:
Worked his way out of here pretty quickly, did he?

BReilley:
MEANWHILE.  I do believe that your car has coil-over-plug ignition, meaning that rather than a central distributor with wires to each spark plug, it has a coil directly above each plug.  My suggestion would be to remove the coil from whichever cylinder is misfiring(you already did this to replace the plugs, if you did it yourself.  Otherwise you totally can do it yourself, just don't break the electrical connector on the coil), and exchange it with the coil from the next cylinder over, then see what happens.  Misfire problems on 3.0 Accords seem usually to stem from faulty coils, although yours being partially solved by replacing the plugs is a bit puzzling.

Did you use the correct plugs?  Most newer imports(all Hondas, I believe) require somewhat expensive platinum plugs.  I prefer Denso or NGK, not a big fan of Champion or Autolite.  They typically come pre-gapped, so do still check gap, but you shouldn't need to change it.

What's the car's mileage?

Dude, never, EVER take advice from auto parts store employees.  With a very few exceptions, they're idiots, paid the $6.50/hour that they're worth.  If they had the brains to work on cars, they would be doing that for much better pay.

(My MR2s and my wife's Miata have their fuel filler caps on the driver side, the Celica has its on the passenger side.  The Peterbilt's fuel filler is on the passenger side, too, but it was built in Canada - does that count?)

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