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Originally Posted by soulman
I talked to one guy here on the forum, he said he maintained the car, no cooling system issues, and didn't abuse it, he ended up with a BHG. Explain that to me ? Aging? iam sorry, but a BHG at 150k is not aging, do u know the average lifespan of a civic or prelude engine? they go on forever!
You DO have a point Bang&Olufsen DK , maintaining the car is the key. And that;s what I thought too, the HG cant seep for no reason! Thank you for the comforting words. But after reading so many postings on BHGs, i am a bit paranoid that the car will leave me stranded one day. I just got my car last weekend and i love it, and i plan to keep it for at least 5 yrs. But i want it to be perfect, and reliable. I was planning to go to montreal ( 4 hours drive from toronto) but decided not to go thinking the gasket might go any minute. I guess reading so many postings on BHGs has created a fear in me... Even while driving iam constantly looking at the temp gauge ;( This is the first honda engine I have seen with the seeping HG issue.
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that's the exact thing that ticks me off the most. i have met many a mechanic that will misdiagnose a problem so fast it'll make your head spin. My mom's friend was told by a TOYOTA DEALERSHIP that her headgasket on her 89 Toyota Corolla was going to go bad. she took care of this thing like nobody i have ever seen take care of a care...seriously. this car had the veneragble toyota 4AFE engine (reliable beyond recognition) she had me change the timing belt for her around the same time she got that dumbass tellin her she needed a headgasket. i got a techer of mine to look at the car with me. went over the spark plugs checked the oil did a leak down test and all types of sh*t....they were tryin to drain her of money. not a thing was wrong with her car...hell the TB even looked new. o_o
if you've seen a well maintained 91 with a bad headgasket i want you to bring me the service records and all things done to it. i have seen too many 91-93s floating around with less than perfect service records having not a single glimmps of a bad head gasket.
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not flamin you, im flaming the notion.......seeping head gasket....pah. I've seen more '00 Dodge intrepids with blown headgaskets than i've seen Legends.
Valvestem seals i'll give you
they seems to let loose on high mileage engines(175,000
miles and up) but using a higher weight oil usually works. even using "High Mileage" works on that problem for the most part. i have a valvestem seal slight leak (251,300 miles or 404,342km), it was worse with 5W30 but i've moved to 0W40 with Lucas, and that stopped oil smoke. and im going to soon go to 5W50 Castrol just to see what 50 weight oil does for hot oil performance...
I do agree with DV8 though the first run of Type Is were more complex in their cooling systems and therefor have a large chance of trapping air somewhere and if the car isn't taken care of you can get problems down the line in the cooling system. proper maintenance is the key, most people dont know you're supposed to change your coolant every 15,000miles or 6 months if im not mistaken. coolant isn't a life long fluid in the car.
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I was mistaken, it's every 15,000 miles or every
12 months. you're supposed to check and/or change it.