Alright so let this be a lesson ( I know I learned from it although I knew better but was being stupid/lazy) if your power steering pump is leaking and spewing fluid all over the engine, fix it quick. I had it destroy the seal on a water pump (or so I believe that to be the case since it also ate through black rtv on the water pump) this water pump was from Napa with the timing belt water pump kit. I now have a rebuilt power steering pump with all new factory seals and O-rings, plus a new factory water pump, and will I was there I did the O-rings on the crossover pipe.
Now here is the next lesson, when doing anything with the coolant crossover pipe, BE CAREFUL, I did not pull too hard on it and broke one of the nipples for the PCV breather box, so although I thought I had put the timing belt on wrong, I had not and realized I had a massive vacuum leak from there. Good thing the dealership was able to get one ordered, but I figured I would share my tale with other fellow G2 guys.
Oh and power steering fluid will aid in the destruction of your accessory belts fyi.
Yeah I’ve broken some so now I have a collection of breather cans with the fittings I pull from the wrecking yard.
And your supposed to use the Grey rtv gasket maker, it’s thicker and seals well when tightened or torqued down.
[QUOTE=da6xsi06;2310549]Yeah I’ve broken some so now I have a collection of breather cans with the fittings I pull from the wrecking yard.
And your supposed to use the Grey rtv gasket maker, it’s thicker and seals well when tightened or torqued down.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I actually bought Hondabond this time around and did everything how the factory service manual requires. Everything was replaced with brand new Acura parts.
Now the car starts up but has a total loss of power down low, I checked timing and this thing is solid. I am going to rent a compression tester and see if maybe it is losing compression.
Well lesson to the wise, if you think that you got an understanding don’t get cocky.
I thought that since my car tested fine with the block tester, that it could not be head gasket or anything similar…
I did a compression test last Friday after thinking I had a vacuum leak, well I tested for a vacuum leak and nothing, I compression tested last August and got 180 across the board, this time 125 and 130 across the board, so she is losing compression.
I decided since the engine had 206k miles and God knows what the previous owner did to it, I would start a new, I picked up a jdm b20b that is clean as hell, looks like brand new, pulled the valve cover and it looks like the car may have run only a couple times lol (I have pulled apart over a dozen used engines mostly LSX and small block Chevy’s and none looked even remotely this clean).
So I am currently swapping everything over to get her back on the road.
Nice, I did the same thing a while back. I ended up with a JDM 9.2:1CR B20B with a “P8R” head. I just started tuning the thing after 7 years of just running it on the stock B18A(OBD1) tune, and it accelerates noticeably faster. Def a good increase in TQ. Is yours a Low Comp or High Comp?