Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

The limit of standard TB service with the eng kept inside the bay…..

Easy to make mistake.

The gasket at the front mid cover was caught during the installation allowing all sorts of debris, oil, moisture to enter ...

Tags: eng cleaning, oil seepage

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Checked existing valve clearance and although I didn't warm up the garage enough today, they were way too tight. Only one of the exh valve at Cyl #1 and both exh valves at Cyl #2 were within the spec. Rest of them were all too tight but by very consistent amount. Didn't see noticeable difference at Cyl #3, 4, 5 that consistently showed about 10psi lower figure from other cyl for the compression check.
During the re-assembly process and ...

Tags: crank seal, crk/cyl sensor, cyl/crk sensor, liquid gasket, oil seepage, valve clearance, water pump

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TB/WP/Valve Service

Since last weekend, some of the BT ISP users were affected by the issue of not being able to load some of the specific sites even when the line speed was fine.
Some claims it's related to the BT DNS but others didn't think so and more of WAN IP related but who knows what ISP is doing even when you specify different DNS.

I was one of the unlucky one and couldn't load google search, google map, google+ photo, etc yet no problem in accessing other sites including nsxcb or NSX ...

Tags: battery holder rod, cross beam, dns, eng mount, eng removal, liquid gasket, oil seepage, valve cover gasket

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TB/WP/Valve Service , Personal View/Self Talk

As reported earlier, there was no point trying to save these heavily corroded spring loaded exh bolts and nuts.
Ideally, I wanted to break them at different position but the corrosion was so deep that they all snapped off in the middle. Will cut them off later.
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Tags: crk/cyl sensor, eng cleaning, exh bolt, exh nut, o2 sensor, oil leakage, oil seepage

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TB/WP/Valve Service

Some of the points from the Health Check.....


ABS Error code #15 stored in the memory. It's for the open/short circuit of RR wheel speed sensor.
As there was no warning light during the test driving session and also when the owner arrived at my place after hours of driving, cleared it for the time being.
For your reference, with the latest ABS brain, you can't clear the error code by disconnecting the battery, pulling the fuse out or disconnecting the connector. ...

Tags: a/c leakage, air cleaner element, air filter, oil pan, oil seepage, radiator

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Health Check Service