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Sedans Honda Accord Honda Accord (1976-1989) Maintenance & Repair
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I am not the one who posted the reply, but I agree on what he was telling you as to how to test it for a busted motor mount. With the car running, put it in drive first and have someone stand off to one side with the hood up and watch. Hold your foot firmly on the brake and start pushing don't on the gas. If the engine raises up or rares up, you have a busted motor mount. If it doesn't rare, try the same procedure in reverse. Simple test and it will tell you if you have a bad mount. Good luck.
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Replying to: wanger1 (Jan 07, 2008 4:12 am) if so, with the vehicle in drive (fwd), are they pushing from the front to try to move the vehicle backwards, or are they in the back, trying to push the vehicle forwards?
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Replying to: user777 (Jan 07, 2008 8:45 am) 2 People are needed. With hood up, engine running, person 1 should stand to the side (beside the front wheel, perhaps). Person 2 should be in the car, with foot firmly on the brake pedal. Person 2 should then press the gas when the car is in drive, while keeping his/her foot on the brake. Repeat that process with the car in reverse. Person 1 will be looking to see if the engine raises up/moves around from its original position. Does this help, and is this what you were meaning, wanger1?
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Replying to: thegraduate (Jan 07, 2008 8:52 am)
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Replying to: user777 (Jan 07, 2008 8:59 am) |
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I have an 87 honda accord lxi that has some sort of a starting issue. It will try to start but will act as it it not geting enough battery power to start. 90 percent of the time it will start okay but that 10 percent of the time it will go to a slow crank to almost no crank If i continue to turn the key it will start. I have replaced the starter, both battery cables, rotor and cap.and battery. I also was wondering what the chances are the starter is bad It is a pep boys starter. I was wonder if it could be the ingtion switch ,or maybe a relay I do not know where to go from here or what to test next.
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Replying to: tonyj2 (Jan 12, 2008 7:24 pm)
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| I've just bought a build date Sept 87 Accord EX(Australia) with 274000km on it. A gamble i know. It is a carburetted 2lt auto.This car has not been maintained very well and has several worrying issues.When started the auto choke idles high then drops below 1000rpm and shkes badly when in gear. When put into gear it clunks badly and does so through the range, I have taken to starting off in 2 and manually shifting to D3 and leaving it there except for highway running. This seems to work OK but am i damaging the trans by doing so. The fluid looks and smells ok to me. I have replaced the front engine mount but the problem remains. Also the power steer fluid goes right throughthe system and leaks v. badly from the rack area. Next issue is performance.The acceleration is sluggish and doesn't want to progress past about half throttle,and if you push the foot down it changes back, but almost at once shifts back up to the same situation. The fuel consumption is excessive to the point that i thought the gauge was faulty.Also the radio resets itself every time it is restarted. A real hassle is that the car was missing the master key and the local Honda dealer said they were out of issue. I really want this key.Is this car worth fixing, i have a feeling for this car and would love to continue on with it . Any assistance would be great | |
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Replying to: tranto (Jan 13, 2008 7:13 pm)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 13, 2008 10:48 am) |
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