My little Honda has performed flawlessly with everything it has gone thru. Mind you nothing harsh, no jackrabbit starts,
pedal up before throttle, etc. etc. But this one has me scratchin my head.
After the last few runs, my little girl seemed to feel sick, Hard to start, yeah a little cold out but nothing extreme, but ran fine.
I also found that she was a little more thirsty for oil lately
About time to pull the spark plug and see how my little girl is doing. After all she's my baby.
Lo and behold here is about a 3/16 th of an inch hole in my valve cover.
Now I know why oil was leaking onto the gas tank this last week. I pulled the cover and found that the
timing belt pulley or something from below had scraped the inside of the cover and poked the aforementioned hole. I also found a couple of
pieces of plastic parts, or what's left of them, stuck to the inside of the cover from the oil.
After I plugged myself into the battery charger to restart my heart, I pulled on the recoil. Locked tight.
Pulling the starter off I could rotate the crank around by hand, so at least she ain't seized up.
Also now she won't start ( disconnected kill wire at the motor ) Wants too but only managed a few turns before the dang
re-engaged killing her.
Now she is sitting in the garage, carburetor flooded, pretty red cover on the floor, busted starter ( I think ), two mysterious
pieces of plastic sitting next to my tool box, and me bawling my eyes out because my little girl is hurtin' bad.
If anyone out there had this problem before, please help me out here. I am crying for my baby to be whole again.
Life will never be the same without Her.
This all happened within 2 hours of a short 3 mile ride BTW and I can't figure this one out
You guys and gals have been a godsend to a noob like me in the past and I thank you for it.
Red
pedal up before throttle, etc. etc. But this one has me scratchin my head.
After the last few runs, my little girl seemed to feel sick, Hard to start, yeah a little cold out but nothing extreme, but ran fine.
I also found that she was a little more thirsty for oil lately
About time to pull the spark plug and see how my little girl is doing. After all she's my baby.
Lo and behold here is about a 3/16 th of an inch hole in my valve cover.
Now I know why oil was leaking onto the gas tank this last week. I pulled the cover and found that the
timing belt pulley or something from below had scraped the inside of the cover and poked the aforementioned hole. I also found a couple of
pieces of plastic parts, or what's left of them, stuck to the inside of the cover from the oil.
After I plugged myself into the battery charger to restart my heart, I pulled on the recoil. Locked tight.
Pulling the starter off I could rotate the crank around by hand, so at least she ain't seized up.
Also now she won't start ( disconnected kill wire at the motor ) Wants too but only managed a few turns before the dang
re-engaged killing her.
Now she is sitting in the garage, carburetor flooded, pretty red cover on the floor, busted starter ( I think ), two mysterious
pieces of plastic sitting next to my tool box, and me bawling my eyes out because my little girl is hurtin' bad.
If anyone out there had this problem before, please help me out here. I am crying for my baby to be whole again.
Life will never be the same without Her.
This all happened within 2 hours of a short 3 mile ride BTW and I can't figure this one out
You guys and gals have been a godsend to a noob like me in the past and I thank you for it.
Red
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