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MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Karl Shultz wrote:

"Remind me to never own another mid-1980s Honda. This thing's got vacuum lines all over the place. It's impossible to figure out what's wrong with it." :lol:

--Whitney, several years ago, swearing at a mid-1980s Honda

Karl, do you want to be my therapist?

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:58 am

I've got a B18A that might be looking for a home......

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:02 am

swap it

Karl Shultz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:08 pm

MikeWhitney wrote:

Karl, do you want to be my therapist?

Mike, I can't help you unless you actually want to be helped. :lol:

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

Karl Shultz wrote:

MikeWhitney wrote:

Karl, do you want to be my therapist?

Mike, I can't help you unless you actually want to be helped. :lol:

q: how many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
a: only one, but the light bulb has to *want* to change

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:01 am

What is the deal Mike, do you have a link to my brain? Does my wife call you and tell your our conversations? We were talking the other day and I said I would love to find an old crx for nothing and fix it up to run around in, maybe give to one of the kids, just for fun.

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:27 am

On the therepy issue. This is not a mental problem but rather physical manifistation of the Law of of Matter and Space. Matter will expand, by what ever means necessary to fully occupy the space it is residing in. This Law is most usually exhibited in woman's closets and sometimes involves the Law of Look How Much I saved at The Wal-Mart/ Belk/Macy/Talbot's ( these laws are very similiar and usually differ only by the neighbor hood said closet is in.

Mike, in your case you have that big garage, all those tools, and a lift that together have very strong gravitional pull on objects that are destined to fill that space. This Law also is similiar to water flow, water going the path of least resistance. A CRX on the side of the road in Cary (OMG Buffy do you see that horrid little japanese car on the way home? Have Julio pick it up and dispose of the next time he comes and trims the shrubs.) where else do you think it should go? You could no more stop this kind of thing then the moon could stop circleing the earth. Don't sweat it, just remember that you are part of the amazing world that God created. Therefore, you are doing God's work.

Any other questions?

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:42 am

clinehall wrote:

What is the deal Mike, do you have a link to my brain? Does my wife call you and tell your our conversations? We were talking the other day and I said I would love to find an old crx for nothing and fix it up to run around in, maybe give to one of the kids, just for fun.

I know where one is at :twisted:

Sitting right next to Chicod Elementary

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Well head's almost off and a new valve and HG are on order...

Working on this thing with the tiny engine bay and the spaghetti vacuum wiring is definitely challenging...

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:06 pm

Mike,
Are you going to replace all those vacuum lines that might not have been moved in years and are now brittle hard rubber? :wink:

Don't break the brittle fittings if you do. :cry:

Dick

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Oops...

Todd Breakey · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:35 pm

Well there's your problem!

Jason Mauldin · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:04 pm

A couple of good taps with a hammer will straighten that right out. :lol:

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Jason Mauldin wrote:

A couple of good taps with a hammer will straighten that right out. :lol:

I was actually considering it. It isn't obvious from the pics, but all 3 of those are bent. I have been wondering how far a valve can really be out of whack and still seat within the tolerances of the shaft. Probably not very much.

Heck at this point since I'm so committed on time I think I'll go ahead and have a valve job done. May not be cost effective but I like to restore things

Stephen Westerfield · **Posted:** Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:47 pm

Rock Auto has exhaust valves on sale for that motor for $4 each.

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