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How To: Valve Adjustment.

August 1, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1g, 1st, 2g, 2nd, accord, adjustment, cars, civic, control, early., ethan, first, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, how, lash, prelude, Roots, sedan, setting lash, to, valve

Have more of a rattle than a growl from your engine lately? If your old Honda’s motor is starting to

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto file #8: Fender replacement

May 22, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1st, 2nd, accord, bumper, cars, civic, early., fender, first, front grill, gen, generation, grill, honda, Honda Roots, install, light, marker, prelude, removal, replacement, resto, restoration, Roots, sedan, signal light, trim

Well, I lucked out recently and managed to not only find a decent replacement fender but one in just the

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Product Review: Evaporust.

March 20, 2013 Ethan Strok 2 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1st, 2nd, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, dirty, early., Evaporust, first, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, prelude, product, removal, resto, restoration, rust, sedan, test, testing

Restoration isn’t always about tracking down tricky to find parts or installing them, sometimes it’s a matter of just cleaning

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Old school tools and dying arts…

February 6, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1st, 2nd, accord, advance, cars, civic, control, cvcc, diagnosis, dirty, driveability, emissions, first, gauge, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, knock, pinging, prelude, resto, retard, sedan, smog, timing, tool, tools, tuning, vacuum

So I re-installed my Weber recently and was running the vacuum line from the brake booster to the base of

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3 Barrel Keihin Breakdown. Part #1

December 8, 2012 Ethan Strok 3 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1st, 3, accord, barrel, bbl, black, box, carb, carburetor, cars, civic, connector, control, cvcc, diagnosis, driveability, early., ek, ek-1, ek1, el, el-1, el1, emissions, first, gen, generation, honda, install, keihin, prelude, sedan, smog, testing, vacuum, vacuum leak, vacuum leaks

Ever wondered why there’s so many strange gadgets on the body of your Keihin? What do they do? Why are

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My love/hate relationship with cvcc.

November 22, 2012 Ethan Strok 25 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, 3 barrel, 32, 32/36, 36, 3bbl, accord, black, box, C.A.R.B., california, carb, cars, civic, control, cvcc, diagnosis, dirty, draft, early., edm, emissions, first, gen, generation, honda, install, jdm, keihin, mikuni, prelude, sedan, seide, smog, testing, tuning, usdm, vacuum, weber

Well, it’s that time again… Time to get that old Keihin dialed in for smog testing. Now, if you’re like

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto File # 7: Vacuum Control Box

October 22, 2012 Ethan Strok 4 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, accord, black, box, cars, civic, control, diagnosis, driveability, early., emissions, first, gen, generation, honda, prelude, resto, sedan, smog, testing, vacuum, vacuum leak, vacuum leaks

Join me in this video as I dissect one of the strange black vacuum control boxes and find

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Hulks in the yard.

September 28, 2012 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, accord, cars, civic, dirty, first, gen, generation, honda, junkyard, old, parts, prelude, resto, restoration, sedan, used

You know they’re out there waiting for you, waiting to make their own contribution to the cause and give you

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