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Sedans Honda Accord Honda Accord (1976-1989) Maintenance & Repair
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Replying to: seabird (Mar 20, 2006 8:11 am) If your clutch is slipping at all, it's ready to go. You can test a clutch by putting stress on it, like deliberately going slightly uphill while in too high a gear (say fourth at 20 mph) and stepping on the gas forcefully...it should slip like crazy if it's weak. Any independent shop can do a Honda clutch....$700 seems more reasonable, or around there. But don't cut corners and don't go to some grease pit of a shop. If the flywheel is grooved or burned or cracked, REPLACE it or you'll have clutch shudder.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Mar 20, 2006 9:44 am)
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Replying to: seabird (Mar 20, 2006 9:58 am) Don't do this very much though, as it is stressful to an old clutch. And make sure you're watching the road ahead while you're test-piloting. The slippage won't be subtle...the engine will race like you are in neutral. If it slips badly, you have very little time left.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Mar 20, 2006 10:16 am) |
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| having possible trans problem. sometimes slipping only after been driving for awhile but only from dead stop.not all the time. fluid find and runs good driving on street and on freeway.but coming off freeway to dead stop and it slips on ttake off from light. any suggestions i do most of my work on my cars but not tranny. jim seastar1960 | |
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Replying to: seastar1960 (Mar 23, 2006 2:38 am) I also have an 88 Accord, and have found that dumping and refilling the trans, running it a while, and dumping-refilling again helps the way it shifts. It is best to use Honda fluid, its been modified esp for the Hondamatics. A local Honda master mechanic (now on his own) said that adding any type of transmission additive can ruin the Honda transmission. He said that he has rebuilt over a 100 of them, and many failures were from additives. He claims it attacks the adhesive that holds the friction material in the clutch. Once it starts to peel off, your looking at a rebuild. He charges $900 for a rebuild. The mechanic also said that he sees many Accords in this vintage with 300,000+ on them, so it may be worth sticking a few $ into it to have it shifting correctly again. Good luck Mrbill |
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Replying to: gold_driver (Mar 20, 2006 12:50 am) |
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Replying to: seabird (Mar 20, 2006 8:11 am) 2.. Clutch peddle will operate much closer to the floor board than before. 3..the constant nee to double clutch in order to change the gear...(low pressure) 4.. feel a difference in the car's power |
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Replying to: hondagirl5 (Jan 27, 2006 9:22 am) |
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I have a 1989 Honda Accord Sei.. I just got it a few weeks ago when around a week ago it had trouble starting one morning.. I got my roommate to jump me and drove it for about an hour.. then the next morning I had problems starting it again. I just held the key and it turned over eventually.. so I went straight to the mechanic where he did some diagnostic testing on it and it concluded that the battery was dead, but everything else was fine (alternator blah blah) so I put in a new battery and now. (about 4 days later) I'm running into the same problem again.. but its only if the car has been sitting for about 6 hours.. I just got back from the mechanic again who seems baffled by it all since he re did the diagnostic testing on it and everything showed up fine (but this is also after i let it try to turn over for a while (yes.. its cranking if its what I believe that term means) I'm going to drop it off to him tomorrow night so it can sit overnight and he can figure it out when he gets in .. but if you have any idea.. 
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