Rbwdrivens 90 civic wagon

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  • RevmaynardRevmaynard Council Member
    This thing is coming together nicely! Any plans on painting the wheels another color?
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    Nice. running yet?

    Time for an interior swap!
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Should be running by the end of the day today.

    No plans on painting the wheels. Gives it a little character.

    Yep as soon as I get the car running and then emissioned I'll be hollaring.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    As of last night it runs.

    Two buddies came over with a goal to get it running.

    I went to get gas in the gas can for it.

    Got a call it runs.

    Probably would of run first time but we plugged in the pm5 back in versus the pm6.

    Once that was figured out started.

    Need to adjust clutch cable
    weld on exhaust bung to connect to exhaust pipe
    get speedo cable (it came with a long one and a short one) the inside part
    fix interior leak ( got a little pond going on)
    put interior back together where I was pulling out the led lighting display that the po had in there.
    air intake snorkle
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    sweet! I should've come to help.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    I just have more button up stuff to do today.

    I'll probably do some after church.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    Rhymes with what I'm doing!


    Cuttin' up stuff.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    You doing the gold ones now?

    Do you know what is the correct length for the speedo cable?

    I have two inner ones but one is too long and the other is short.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    I don't know the length offhand, but I have several you can try (which are installed in wagons.)
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Ok.

    I was possibly gonna try one from a hatch and see kind of thing.

    All depend what I get up to today.

    Might be a car work day or a cooking day.

    Not sure what right now.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Sunday got exhaust fabbed up.

    Need to weld that up.

    Found wire forgot to plug in.

    Found an intake that will work. Needs cleaning though since it was at PAP on a parts car.

    Redid stereo harness when P.O. attached speaker wire to drive rear amp.

    Took off cowl panel and cleaned. Siliconed little panel.

    made sure all grommets are in place.

    lengthened throttle body valve wire.

    Last but not least fired it up again. Lots quieter. I'm guessing once I weld it up will be even better.

    Things to do:

    Battery hold down bracket.
    weld exhaust
    speedo cable
    air intake
    clean out little lake in rear floor
    put on da lip versus ef9

    emission, tag and insurance

    then air condition ing.
  • looking good. what brand short throw are you using? I was planning on doing a double bend as well.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    The short shifter was an Ebay brand no name jobbie.

    I had it laying round from my old sedan.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Decided to mess with wagon last night before the pounding of storms.

    We did not have a tach feedback the other day.

    Found out why.

    Why in the hell would you pull all the fuses from the fuse box.

    I'm now trying to figure out all the fuses and what sizes.

    I've got most of them figured out but 4, they are hanging off the fuse box panel. Like auxilliary ones. Almost like the power window setup.

    Also looked in back area got a lake at the rear seat floor board. Sat with the hose on the front windshield. Found it dripping through the cowl panel going in somewhere and dripping on to the blower motor assembly then from there on to the floor board.

    Now to trace that one down.

    I'm sure I have a nice lake back there due to all the storms we got.
  • rbwdriven wrote:
    I'm sure I have a nice lake back there due to all the storms we got.

    I feel your pain. I just spent $800 getting the windshield seal area repaired (required replacing windshield when the old one took most of the metal out with it :shock: ) and some A-pillar cancer filled. I would have inch-deep puddles after a hard rain :cry:

    Check the antenna for leaks while you're there. It can leak and the water will run down the inner side of the roof to the B-pillar and from there down into the rear floor pans.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    I've pretty much tracked it down to passenger side so that is where i need to focus my efforts.

    I know on my hatch there is a little black panel over the wiper linkage and another one over the center wiper.

    Is there one on the center wiper of the wagon?

    I can't remember if I saw one.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Well got to weld the exhaust tonight.

    I also found my leak.

    it was the gasket around the blower motor box.

    Or shall I say what was left of it.

    I have some gasket material so I used that.

    I pulled the glove box and looked up and I could see light.

    That is about all I got.

    Ac stuff sitting in the front seat.

    But exhaust done and EF9 lip swapped for DA lip.
  • love the color of your wheels :)
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    love the color of your wheels :)

    thank you.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    The blower motor box isn't gasketed to keep water out. If you can see daylight up through there,then that black cover you mentioned is missing. I ran into this same scenario on rev's car.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Did not get to do much today.

    Helped a buddy do an interior swap in his sedan.

    Wife was running getting ready for emergency trip back home.

    So I atleast got to do one with the wagon.

    Installed brand new factory window regulator.

    Wow no effort at all.
  • RevmaynardRevmaynard Council Member
    How much was the new regulator?
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    $60 from honda.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Had the day off since wife was out of town.

    Took the wagon to get emission since I decided to put insurance on it.

    Well that was fun. On the drive I could feel all the rust scraping off the rotors every time I hit the brakes.

    Got to the emission place. Sorry machine broke, went to another one.

    Guy came back in the office 10 minutes later.

    Sir your car has sprung a leak.

    The radiator took a dump on me.

    Well back to the drawing board.

    Drove home with heat on high.

    Got out my radiator from my civic and threw it in.

    Waited for kids to get home. The chilled.

    My mum offered to watch the kids while I took the wagon for a run.

    All well and truly good not a leak now.

    Also put water wetter in there as well.

    Now to emission it again.
  • bam-bambam-bam Council Member
    I have spare radiators.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Yeah I ended up using the one from my old white civic.

    Had to change top fitting to the block to have the correct flow path for the top hose.

    Ran really good after all this.

    I need to measure the to the wheel opening on each side and set up the supension side to side.

    Got scrubbing going from one side versus another.

    Past owner just put them on.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    got a phone call from dad.

    Wagon passed emission. Took 1/2 hr due to exhaust leak but it passed.

    almost got a tag on it but due to dad going to get the tag, they said need to get me to fill out paperwork for it.

    tag will be tomorrow.

    Dad told me NEED a friggin exhaust on it.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    Car now has a tag on it.

    So nice and legal.
  • It's nice to live in a state with no inspections. I feel your pain.
  • rbwdrivenrbwdriven Senior Wagonist
    We had an out if it did not pass.

    we were going to register it at a friends house.
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