Cooling

Time to vacuum fill the coolant.


Another leak check as I removed the header tank after carrying out the last check.


Honda Type 2 coolant in the system now.


Connected the battery and warmed up the engine.


Quick adjustment on the ACG and A/C belts as they expanded a bit.


Again, they need to be re-adjusted in the future.

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Updated 22-04-2011 at 09:11 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: vacuum fill

Categories

TB/WP/Valve Service , Engine/Tyre , Cooling

Started to clean the cam holders.


Due to the blowby gas and about 1 year old engine oil, the sticky black oil sludge was quite stubborn even for this low mileage NSX.


Decided to soak them in the cleaner fluid for longer period.


Quite normal for any engines with combination of short distance driving and when the engine oil is nearly 1 year old so nothing to worry.


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Updated 23-04-2011 at 11:10 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: cam holder, water pump

Categories

TB/WP/Valve Service , Engine/Tyre , Cooling

TB removed.


The area behind the TB drive pulley was very clean.


This photo was taken before cleaning anything.


The crank oil seal was also very clean so no need to replace.





WP removed.


Looks very clean in the photo but ….


It was already making small noise from the bearing.
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Updated 23-04-2011 at 11:12 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: tb drive pulley, water pump

Categories

TB/WP/Valve Service , Engine/Tyre , Cooling

I only started to work on another NSX from this week and already received almost all of the parts for the next service....


More than one month ago, I placed an order for lots of parts to japan.


There were several back ordered parts at that time but it didn’t bother me because I only needed the parts around mid April.


Then, the earthquake hit Japan.


While I thought about the delay for the parts ...

Updated 23-04-2011 at 11:14 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: parts

Categories

TB/WP/Valve Service , Engine/Tyre , Cooling , Parts