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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2009, 08:56:05 PM »
right....

Which is why you have to justify yourself with your "certification" rather then your apparent knowledge on the subject matter.
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2009, 09:14:57 PM »
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Which is why you have to justify yourself with your "certification" rather then your apparent knowledge on the subject matter.

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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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2009, 09:24:47 PM »
Trollin' trollin' trollin'.  Keeps the posts a rollin'.  Keep those users fumin'...

My 2002 Ford Focus SE, which is currently sitting at the shop because Ford cheaped out on the overdrive solenoid, was built in Wayne, MI and has the fuel filler on the passenger side.  So much for that theory.

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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2009, 09:49:20 PM »
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Besides, if there was "japanese steel", and it was sooo good, wouldn't gun manufacturers buy it to make guns from?

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Japan may not mine their own ore, but they do a decent job of smelting it into useable stock. 
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2009, 09:50:54 PM »
Cars in the MillCreek household and location of the gas filler

1986 Mazda B-2000 pickup: built in Hiroshima, Japan and the filler is on the passenger side
2005 Ford Escape SUV: built in Kansas City and the filler is on the driver side
2004 Mercedes C-230 sedan: built in Germany and the filler is on the passenger side.
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #30 on: April 04, 2009, 09:54:10 PM »
made my living knowing more about them than the next guy.

that would depend who you were standing next to  wouldn't it?


what happened to that biz?  the next guy own it now?
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #31 on: April 04, 2009, 10:06:31 PM »
Edited - overtaken by events, as it were... ;)
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It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #33 on: April 04, 2009, 10:37:06 PM »
Nothing to see here, folks.  Move along...   :police:

(Save for his frustration over at THR.US, that is...)

http://www.thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=408310
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #34 on: April 05, 2009, 02:35:22 AM »
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Ever notice how bad those things rusted?

Uh, no.  They didn't rust any more than the American cars I drove in that period.  Sorry, ain't buying it,
ThrottleJockey.  A fanatic does not necessarily an expert make.  Not too many here agreeing with you, either.
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #35 on: April 05, 2009, 07:15:40 AM »
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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.
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?
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #36 on: April 05, 2009, 07:45:04 AM »
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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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2009, 01:30:47 PM »
Let it go folks.

ThrottleJockey can't respond, anyway.
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #38 on: April 05, 2009, 03:15:33 PM »
Worked his way out of here pretty quickly, did he?
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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #39 on: April 07, 2009, 01:30:05 AM »
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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Re: Driving on a bad cylinder
« Reply #40 on: April 07, 2009, 10:14:06 AM »
This is probably too late for the original poster, but it's definitely a bad idea to drive on a misfiring cylinder. I had a 2000 S-10 which nearly caught on fire after it was driven with no spark in one cylinder. The cat overheated, melted the internal structure destroying it, and got hot enough to burn off the paint on the bottom of the cab.