500,000 kilometers!

Woo-hoo! Went over today.
http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/misc/500000.0.jpg

Mind you, that's only 310,685 miles, so...

 

What model do you drive?

 

'91 Integra RS, 2dr, 5 speed. Bought new in '91.

 

How much rust, baling wire and duct tape holdin' that thang together???

Pass the salt please!

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JT

 

However, that means you are on the way home from the moon. Or 1.667
light seconds from where you started.

 

Looking at the pictures on Tegger's web site... that puppy he's got
is pretty solid, and I can't see any 'jury rigging' (AKA... Ontario
Provincial Liberal Party 'modus operandi')!

 

T'ain't no rust on that thing. I hunt and kill rust like it was a Middle
Eastern terrorist.

There is, however, the conceptual equivalent of baling wire and duct tape
on the car right now: A hair elastic.

My radio antenna (manual) has lost its rubber gasket, and the plastic
grommet above that has cracked. This all means water wants to leak into the
hatch area. A new OEM antenna is $170, and I cannot buy the plastic piece
on its own.

Until I get around to doing some junkyard prowling, my daughter has given
me a lime green hair elastic to wrap around the base of the plastic piece
so water can't get in. It's working, too.

So if you see a black '91 Integra with a lime green hair elastic around the
base of the antenna, that's my car. :^)

 

Damn. I was meaning to put that flag back upright before I left the moon,
and I forgot. Have to wait until next time, I guess...

 

(M.A. Stewart) wrote in @theodyn.ncf.ca:

Rust is basically non-existent. Where it's present, it's in places that
aren't really important, like the front crossmember weld seams. There was
rust in the windshield pinchweld, but that's gone now (lots of tedious
grinding, and kind co-operation from the glass place).

Lest anybody think the car is perfect, here is a list of the major stuff
that's currently wrong with it:
* High oil consumption (about 1700 mi/qt).
* Differential pinion bearing whines between 45 & 50 mph. Annoying.
* Shifter badly worn; clunk and doink noises when shifting into 2nd & 3rd
* Driver door handle a bit sticky; sometimes have to push it back down.
* Wiper blade holders very worn and loose (new ones on order).
* Door & hatch weatherstripping drying up and getting hard.
* Interior cloth very faded; top of rear seat beginning to disintegrate.
* Velcro that holds hatch carpet in place has come adrift.
* Driver's sun visor too tight & hard to swing up & down.
* Clock dims intermittently; sharp tap with finger temporarily fixes it.
* Headlights extremely sandblasted; tallow candles may be brighter.
* Many exterior plastic pieces distorted with age, no longer fit 100%.
* Summer tires down to wear bars, need to replace in spring.

It's an old car. But it has new OEM shocks!

 

Have you looked at the aftermarket kits that places like Pep
Boys sell for around $20?

I replaced the manual antenna on my 91 Civic a few years
ago, using a Pep Boys aftermarket antenna, and the final
result easily looks like OEM.

 

Armstrong says he's "pretty certain" the flag didn't fall down and
Aldrin couldn't see it from his side. The other launches have all
been well documented. So, unless you "clipped a cone", I don't think
you have to worry. Besides, that's what track workers are for.

 

still ongoing, or is that getting better? my civic used to burn a lot,
but that's improved substantially in the last couple of years that i've
been using m1 - and istr you saying you'd been using that. some of the
motorcycle boys say that high detergent oils help old smokers because
they say it cleans carbon off the rings and lets them seal again. and i
have to say, my engine is real clean inside these days - it was badly
varnished up when i first got it.

resoldering will fix that.

 

It hasn't changed at all, actually. It seems to range from about 2100 to
1700, winter to summer respectively.

But I'm still refining my inspection method.

It appears ambient temperature may be a factor in dipstick readings: If
my start reading is taken at 55 degrees and my finish reading is taken
at 30, the amount of drop appears to be more than if both readings were
taken at the same temp, and vice versa.

Yes, since Aug 18, 2006.

12 years of Castrol GTX left my engine's head brown with varnish (no
deposits mind you, just harmless varnish).

The head was boiled when it was skimmed in 2003 when the head gasket
went, so it was shiny silver when re-installed. Castrol GTX was used for
three years after that.

Since then it's had a steady diet of Mobil 1. There is at this moment
not a trace of varnish; the head is about as silver as the day the head
was skimmed. Because of Mobil 1, or because I need to let nine more
years go by first? Hmmm.

Once I work up the nerve to try and pop that clock out of the dash to
fix it... Go check out some '90-'93 'Tegs at the wreckers to see what I
mean...

 

I did consider aftermarket, but my myriad poor experiences with aftermarket
have prevented me from actually carrying out my consideration.

My local (and trusted) Acura dealer sells an aftermarket power antenna for
$29 versus the nearly $300 it costs for new OEM, specifically because of
the difference in price between the two. Apparently the aftermarket works
pretty well, and customers are happy with them. In any case, nobody buys
the $300 OEM power antennas, for some very weird reason...

I dunno. If a junkyard prowl turns up nothing useful, I may just go
aftermarket, so long as I can keep the OEM connectors...

 

Youse'll hafta be travelin' in TX for me to see it though with gas
prices dropping like a rock, I may actually drive my '55 Prez back to
the east coast in the spring.

BTW, I've used truck inner tubes for custom gasket material over the
years with good success.

JT

 

That's the way to buy a new car. Run it 'til the wheels are square.

Best part it is yours with out a payment book..

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JT