Mechanic Special 2000 Honda Civic
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- I recently picked up this 2000 Honda Civic from the Pull-A-Part in Indianapolis Indiana. I needed a replacement engine and transmission for my oldest sons 1999 Honda Civic. Apparently he overheated it badly, so I decided to replace his engine as well as his slipping transmission.
I didn’t quite get what I needed as you’ll see in the video, but I think this is a great walkthrough on diagnosing a misfire in an engine. I take you through my process from power balance to a quick cylinder leak down test to find the cause of the problem. You can use these skills on any engine to find the cause of a problem like this.
I might use this car for something in the future, but for now, I just need to get my oldest sons car back on the road, but don’t be surprised if you see this car again at some point. BTW I’m calling it #ETCGJohnWick.
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Good old hondas. Will run without oil and down a cylinder longer than most cars will run at all
I have a Honda.EJ 6 2000 facelift and this is the best Car in the world
Not true though is it
I just gained 10 automotive IQ points watching this
Really? This is basic stuff man. I love to put this stuff on an Oscilloscope
very accurate
"How this thing even ran is a total mystery!" - well, it's a Honda :)
thats true lol, but damn ppl dont change their damn oil
Same with the old toyotas
Neglect will destroy *any* engine
hondas tough as fuck.
removed the throttle sensor, the idle air control valve connector. and the map sensor connector. the car basically had no idea how much throttle i was giving it but it somehow managed to start/run properly. limited me to 2k rpm tho.
We at Honda prefer to call it: "unrequested cylinder deactivation".
Lmaoo
Seller: It just need an Oxygen Sensor 🤣🤣🤣
lol
just change the spark plugs. haha
“I just don’t have the time to fix it”. 🤣 every craigslist seller.
"It was running when I parked it" -- lol. every time
Or it has an aggressive cam :)
15:08 *pulls oil pan*
Eric, with the voice of a kid on Christmas: "Pieces!"
Spare parts*
ooOoh
Honda civic: one piston connecting rod is broken and i have pieces lingering around my oil pan? No problem, let's go to the beach, i still run, whatever.
You should have just patched it with a bit of tin and and some silicone 😂
Whoever managed to screw up a d series that bad with that low of mileage should do jail time
@im ok12 considering its a honda, its totally possible it was ran low on oil several times. Oil is the first line of defense when cooling an engine
Prolly rolled back the miles not gonna lie so many people are doing this.. there’s friggin RUclips vids on how o do it.. smfh
I totally agree. Hondas are hard to beat unless you’re just neglecting it.
Lol
You're a good father
Man oh man I agree. My dad never, ever helped me on any of my transportation, ever.
You made the cylinder head removal look like the easiest thing in the world. Nice.
Roadkill Garage would like to know your location. They're interested in a 3 cylinder conversion that you found. /s
Feels like old times seeing you work on a 90s civic .
Still see a few of these 1996-2000 civics puting around
Son drives a 99 with only 160k on the clock. Hope to keep it going til he gets enough money to buy a newer car.
@R L if your in new york might have seen ya. 180,000 low miles for the age my 2002 ody has 191,000
Win some you lose some. Im 50/50 on potential flips like these. There is something addicting about possibly reviving a vehicle like this.
As an owner of one of these, they keep the value insanely high. Drop $150 for a new D16y7/8 and you can sell off this bad larry for like $2200
Honda cylinder deactivation system just kicked in, no big deal.
😂😂
Back in the mid 00's wasn't Honda (or maybe another Japanese company, i can't remember) who proposed something like that? Like an engine computer diagnostics system that deactivates a cylinder and essentially puts you in limp mode when it detects something wrong with the engine. Ah, memory is a bad thing to lose, but i'm pretty sure i read that in a magazine back in the day.
@@aserta I know vw's did that
Im guessing the mistery went like that:
At least 1 careless owner who neclected the car.
Oilchanges havent been done early enough and regularly
Oil rings got cloged up with old oil
Car starts to eat oil
Careless owner doesnt notice that because he/she is well, careless
Engine runs dry
Oil light starts flickering from time to time because oil level so low that the pick up sucks air in corners
Rod bearings dont like that
Owner notices the oil light and puts in oil
Rod bearings have allready taken a bit damage from that whole thing
And then one day, it starts to knock because of that and the last owner who was on the car at the time it happened brought it to a shop and they found the problem an suggested the scrap yard.
I think the step "Owner notices the oil light and puts in oil" was skipped.
@@sergeymatpoc it was skipped for a while at least. Long enough to do damage to the bearings. But that damage does not neccessarily show right away in form of a rod knock. That car can very well run a few thousand miles without noises when its minor damage on the bearing. That minor damage can cause a catastrophic failure later down the line.
@@99Lezard99 I should disagree here, I don't believe lack of oil can lead to catastrophic failure later if the oil situation was fixed before making hole in engine block. I agree that some pressure loss will happen with damaged bearing, in some cases the bearing material can travel to other bearings, but in overall that won't lead to fatal condition (I think so), these Honda engines were very tough.
@@sergeymatpoc im not sure about that. But im sure i wouldnt wanna have an engine that was run dry at some point. Of course you cant really proove that this happened and when it knocks its so fucked that youll not be able to tell if that was the case afterwards anyway. Id say it would be a gamble to just top of oil and keep going.
"Owner notices the oil light and puts in oil" I doubt that... Many don't even know what that means. LOL I had a guy drove company truck without oil from customer's house all the way back to the company parking lot. Next morning, found engine seized.
Sadly that looks like someone who really didn’t care about their car and it suffered because of it.
Probably rev it to the max ,with very used oil..and kaboom 💥
Non mechanically inclined individuals, think cars are self maintaining 🙄
@@knocksensor3203 newsflash, everything in life needs maintenance.
Its a fucking 20 year old 500 $civic last owner could care less what append to the car
@@knocksensor3203 you can bang the limiter for 5 min on a cold start at -20°c and it will not break these d16 engine are bullet proof man
I had a '96 civic with the exact same engine. It was a good old little car that reliably took me around the Inland Empire in Ca for nursing school. Sad to see that engine in such bad shape.
could you not make it run as a 3 cylinder for giggles.
I just picked up a 2000 Honda Civic sedan
What is it about an ETCG video that lifts a dull day? It could be the skills, it could be the advice - it could even be the topics for discussion. But above everything, it's the company - almost like coming home. You won't find this attribute elsewhere. Still the best on RUclips.
I feel the same way reading your comments. Thank you.
@@ericthecarguy You're most welcome. Thank you.
"Now watch while Cylinder 4...doesn't move." Oh...oh no.
It's your Piston Return Spring. Check out ChrisFix video: ruclips.net/video/oFX_Xq9WHTI/видео.html
Haha when he had it at TDC and cylinder 4 was at the bottom, I already knew cylinder 4 didn't move...
Duuuude... 2000 civic I bought for my daughter did the EXACT same. Busted #4 rod and still run.
This is the best ad for owning a Honda.
Wow- that quickly went from a "will it run" video
to a "how did it run" video.
Da whip had a hard knock life, yo!
I have a 1999 civic with 35,000 miles on it, I think a have a couple of hundred thousand miles to go before it gets close to the condition of that engine! Your videos are the best and always learn something from them, Thanks!!!
This car is junk, except for the transmission, i hope.
Meh.. still a LOT of good parts. You could use all of the interior stuff, seats, door panels/ switches, windows. steering column, radio, seat belts, whole doors, ect.. You could use all of the suspension stuff, control arms, hubs, brakes, wheels.. You could use body panels, fuel tank, head/tail lights, wheel liners, tie rods, shocks (maybe), sway bar and links, ect.. and almost everything on the outside of the motor, throttle body, exhaust manifold, cat, air filter box, intake manifold, alt/water pump/ac compressor (maybe), engine fan, radiator.. ect.... Still a lot of good stuff on that thing. You could probably fix issues on 5 different cars and still have a pile of parts left to sell on Ebay/ craigslist.
I wouldn't trust it
@@calholli I was thinking the same thing. So far, we know the engine isn't fit for anything but a yard car, and one front fender is crumpled. it looks like the only things that can't be resold, to recover the cost of the car, are the engine and fender. He could likely even make enough to pay for this car, and buy another used engine, by parting it out.
@@chrishernandez2490 Yea I'd be so spooked as to how badly everything else was neglected I'd stay the hell away from this thing. Would make a nice donation car to a machine gun range tho.
Id take tbe headlights but shipping to my local is spendy
It would be cool to know, how many honda engines Eric has dissasembled during his career? :)
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Best thing you can do for your car is keep the oil changed👍 nice to flush your coolant once a yr too😎As i change the oil on my wifes car and only 2 quarts of sludge comes out🙄 wondering what she did with the oil change money😎
That’s sad with only 132k miles on it with a blown engine. Makes me glad my 00 civic ex coupe is still running great with 228k on the clock.
A broken rod and completely failed piston yet still ran. And with seemingly no noise at that, crazy! That's a Honda for you.
I just did a GSR swap and have the perfect engine for you and all the parts needed for a manual swap
3:08 The first thing yo'u're going to do is start the engine, not add oil?
Honda D series engines are tanks😂 can’t believe it still ran
I had 1997 Honda Accord, i drove back Minnesota from Taxes, went to shop for oil changed, mechanis told me there was no oil inside your engine, he also told me i was lucky, 😂 damn Honda engine .
@@huyvo1586 lmao oh damn!!
One careful owner 15 bad ones. Seen plenty thrown rods in my time but never one that didn't peek out the side of the block let alone drive home pmsl.
Anyhoo, rest of it will make a fine rolling parts department I'm sure.
Gr8 vid as always Lord Car Guy of Eric.
Civic engine doesn't have rods
@@dw4940 doesn't have con rods😱❓❓❓
Im from 🇬🇧 so this may be a language thing 😉😂
Please do tell what makes the pistons go up and down😊
@@Crushwokery my bad i was thinking rods as in pushrod like used in 6 & 8 cylinder
Why does this occur? Running on little, to no oil for too long? -Curious '98 civic coupe @160K.
Sad about the engine but I do love the carnage. this woul be a good what happens when you don't change your oil video
Oil is good forever ain't it 🤔
I do hate that when this happens all this work just to find it’s dead 💀
I think the transmission is still good. So is the car actually.
@@ericthecarguy slap it back together and run it on 3 cylinders, take it for a drive and you'll know if the trans is good or not. That's what I would do before doing all the work of swapping it into your sons car just to find out the trans may be bad.
@@dallasthierauf3938 He already drove it before he took it apart.
Cylinder deactivation, the wrong way
I mean you could always turn it into just a 3 banger it should be a little bit more fuel efficient! I'm amazed that actually started up to and the fact that you drove it into your shop shows the power of Honda technology! Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
nobody needs a 4th piston anyhow.
It would vibrate itself to death eventually. unless you somehow change the firing order lol
How the hell did that run at all haha. I've never seen a failure like that!
I remember about 35 years ago a girl had her car towed in, said a part fell off while driving she said the part was in the car. I was expecting a muffler, but to my surprise there was a half of a connecting rod laying on the floor! I drove that car into my garage with a hole in the block. Funny thing that rod was totally dry, no sign of oil. I could never figure out why the engine didn't lock up instead of throwing the rod through the block.
In my toolbox I have a straightened out wire coat hanger, which I stick into spark plug holes to confirm TDC. Cost zero $
I really enjoyed this man!
Looks like they got oil change at Wallyworld, judging by the type of folk they let go in that store, they do quick drill and fill so yeah, not much luck on that engine being healthy.
HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!! Thats special! 132k and done. Ive got 278k on the same engine. Maintenance is EVERYTHING!
CHANGE YOUR OIL PEOPLE. What a shame! Easily used up only 1/3 or even 1/4 of it's engine life! The owner should have bought a Dodge and thrown that away. Sorry for your loss Eric.
My '98 Honda's engine will last forever. I'm parking it in late October then licence my Saturn for winter (I got both for free and fixed them up on my own - 80%).
But, brakes aren't gtreat and there are rattles underneath on both. So, next summer's projects are under the cars.
Sorry for that disappointment but it made for a really educational video.
[Spoiler Alert]
1:) It seems you ran it on one cylinder during the initial testing - I didn't know that was possible.
2:) I didn't realise two pistons could move in sync like that, I thought they always moved out of phase of each other.
3:) I had no idea such large chunks could block the oil pickup - I thought there was a fine mesh covering that thing.
Thanks for taking the time to show us non-mechanics these failures. It's only when you see the consequences that you can really appreciate how important regular maintenance is.
Eric, Serious question. Is there are reason why you could not have used a low mileage JDM engine and Transmission. After dealing with engine resellers of domestic engines and still having engines issues, I only use JDM engines now and I have had no issues. Not chasing power or anything, just running the engines stock. Sometimes you may pay a few hundred dollars more, but through reputable distributors, I have never had any issues. HMO on the West Coast. I would not recommend Attarco.
Also, I know you do not need to hear this from the peanut gallery, but looks like there are some good parts on her still. Part her out and recoup your cost. May be some interesting videos from that.
As always, thanks for your content.
6th gen Honda civic reliability! Runs "normal" with a blown connecting rod.
a broken connecting rod at 130k miles doesn't sound very reliable but I agree, it didn't sound half bad when it was running lol
@@TomsLife9 not bad when it's 20k miles overdue a service
The Honda Civic is probably the best car ever made, I have a 1997 Honda Civic and it starts first turn of the key, never gave any trouble, just a pity that the body is rotten but I'm in the process of replacing the rear arches and repairing the sills or rocker panels as they are called in the US&A. Brilliant little cars although in Europe, parts for older Hondas are a little hard to come by. The model I have is the MB2 5 door model only made in Europe between 1995 and 2001
Back in 2000 Honda already was a step in the future, using deactivable cylinders so you can save up fuel untill the VTEC kicks in 🔥🔥😂😂
Sad little Y7. I have a 1998 DX with the D16Y7. 419,000 miles on it and runs like a top. This just makes me sad.
D16Y7 is found in:
1996-2000 Honda Civic DX/VP/LX/CX
1998-2000 Honda Civic Special Edition - SE/EX (Canada)
1996-1997 Honda Del Sol S
1996-1997 Honda Civic Coupé LSI
Bore and Stroke: see D16 Series Engines
Displacement: see D16 Series Engines
Compression: 9.4:1
Power: 106 hp (79 kW; 107 PS) at 6200 rpm
Torque: 103 lb·ft (140 N.m) at 4600 rpm
Redline: 6800 rpm
Rev-limiter: 7200 rpm
Valvetrain: SOHC (4 valves per cylinder)
Fuel Control: OBD2 MPFI
Head Code: P2A-2
Piston Code: P2E
ECU Code: P2E
If you hadn't have filmed that and just told us the story, I would never believe it. I can't believe you got that thing to run.... Holy Mackerel.
Holy connecting rod,Batman!
At some point this kind of stuff has got to break your confidence in these random used vehicles. These things should purr like a kitten at that mileage, with another 135k miles of service ahead of it. Something went wrong in this cars 20yrs and more often than it's maintenance related, something done poorly or not done at all. If it ran like a top that body damage is a piece of cake to fix, someone on the inside would have snagged it before you even had a chance to get your eyes on it.
Hey Eric I had somebody comment on my channel think there comment was meant for your active engine mounts video thought it was funny 😄 😆 @EricTheCarGuy
Weird.
@@ericthecarguy yeah it was odd
Wow your the Civic King remember the white one changed engine twice? Love it mine lasted 20 years no problems still running 1999 Civic LS. Thanks Eric
This was a testament to Honda, pretty cool that it still ran with a catastrophic failure like that. For those faced with the same issue, no compression in an engine, this was a great tutorial in how to determine where the loss of compression is. I do have one suggestion though. Rather than removing the cylinder head, and spending over an hour to determine the failure point, using a borescope in the spark plug hole could have given the same information with much less work. It still gives a better total picture to disassemble as shown in the video, but for a backyard mechanic looking for a quicker diagnosis, a borescope would have yielded the same result with much less labor and time lost. This is not to say that what Eric did was wrong, because it was by no means wrong. Just highlighting another avenue for diagnosis for those interested.
Thanks for the great content Eric, this was an awesome video!
my buddy sent a con-rod threw his block (many years ago) in his honda and the thing still ran and got him home lol
Súper late on the oil change, in desperate need of a tune up, beat up looking..not hard to see why this car threw a rod at 135k. What a shame. Judging by how they maintained the engine Im not too sure that trans is gonna be any good
Wow Eric, seeing you diagnose this piece of shit was really relaxing. I was watching this during a meeting. I got more out of this than my meeting.
I wondered if when you were about to turn it to TDC for the leakdown, you got tricked a little by the position of the distributor. At that point, me not knowing the distributor trick, I would have just looked down the hole and barred it over, which if you woulda done, no movement. Never seen no movement. Great video Eric. Thanks
Definitely enjoyed it Eric👍
I've never seen an engine still running with such a catastrophic damage in-block, that's Honda quality👍, they make sure no matter what fails you'll still reach your destination😉
Thanks for sharing & Stay Safe👍
Very good video. Most Honda's run to 220K mi with out fail if maintained...
Eric TCG: 'Watch how cylinder 4 doesn't move'
Eric O: 'There's your problem lady'
Always love a good automotive autopsy
Considering how cheap engine oils are and how easy it is to change the oil in a car it amazes me that some people hardly ever change their engine oil 🤔 and then wonder why a good healthy engine gives up the ghost 😳
Blown up Honda motor at 130k miles? No way. That's a bummer
Its a honda. It now with proof can run with 3 cylinder and a complete junk of an engine.
Oldest son? I thought eric was hot out of college. 😂
lol
Time for a vitara build
holy crap my jaw dropped when took off the oil pan haha
13:45 seeing those pistons all like .. .. .. "" made me laugh so hard but it also made me sad. Anyway, great video Eric, thanks for sharing your mekanik wisdom with us
(I just gained 10 automotive IQ points watching this) Same here.
I am the fourth owner of our 97 civic in the family. Glad you do still make vids of this great car
Not happy end but awesome video Eric, thx ! :-)
Priceless education! Honda almost bullet proof!
It might just need piston springs. Chrisfix has a video on fixing them.
I had one go many years ago it took out a chunk of the block, half the size of a foot ball. Hate when that happens.
Excellent 👌 excellent educational videos.
Thanks
Wow! That's was a MECHANICS SPECIAL! Why not???
ETCG old style video. Hope it continues in that way👍
Yah as soon as I saw that piston not moving , -> broke connecting rod.
That engine is “doneski”
My own son, has my old 2001 maxima. 210k miles. He ran it low on oil and started to see oil light flicker when stopping, he called me and asked I told him to dump remained od the qrt of oil.
From trunk into engine. And that got him Home. Later That day I added 1 qrt of oil and 1 qrt of oil stabilizer. And it was full. Hopefully that saved it for now.
Now we use 1qrt oil stabilizer as a sub for 1 qrt of oil and moved to 10w30 oil. (It calls for 5w30 but manual says 10w30 can be used in my climate). It isn’t a VVT engine
It must be burning oil now. About 1qt every 3k. It must of been 2 qrts ever 3k burning oil before the oil stabilizer
It also as a rear main seal leak.
That seal leak got better with
AT205 reseal.
Awe, come on, slap a new connecting rod in it and send it over to Neutral Drop :)
That would be cool to see how long they could put stuff in the engine til it blew again.
Shell with salvage title = track build maybe ...
They should have replaced the oil on my birthday.
Well, that was good to find decent donor car. Still thousands Civic left to check it out)
Would you happen to have a video of you replacing a crankshaft position sensor on the 2000 civic ?
I wonder if pull-a-part would give you another engine. There is a pull-a-part in Tulsa, Oklahoma that actually told me: "take this engine and if its bad, bring it back and we can get you another one"---- Luckily the engine was good, but that surprised me that they were going to allow a return if I couldn't use it at all. (I love that place
Any part is guaranteed to work or they give you another
If you go back to Pull A Part and get another and it is also kaput and then go back to get even one more Pull A Part might call you a fool...their morale would suffer because that would be abuse and a large company that abuses it's customers goes down hard, dies. Therefore it would pay Pull A Part to make amends by offering you a free engine this next go-round...do ye follow?
Maybe they sold it to him real cheap (cost of paperwork only?), for the advertising
That's effed up! It's almost impossible to kill a 90s honda civic.
Almost. That poor car was neglected to death.
LOL... I just got back from the Akron Pull a Part! Got a bumper cover and airbox for my Accord.
Good explanation on the leak down test as well as the compression tests Eric 👍 great work @EricTheCarGuy
A little care and it could have run many more miles than that.
I love seeing these types of videos reminds me of the old school Eric the car guy. I would love to see more of these types of videos please
the music was a perfect fit for the time lapse lol I loved it
In my HS auto shop class, we had a Sun scope and it could shut down each cylinder to diagnose a misfire. Most engines that came into the shop at that time were V8s.
I am very surprised that it still ran after the rod failure.
my GSR hydrolocked and bent a rod and surprisingly nothing else had damage. crank was good, block was good, etc but the rod was suuuper bent. gonna start rebuilding the engine tomorrow, wish me luck. it's my first time lmao
Let us know how that rebuild goes bro