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Originally Posted by brucepick
Warning: This is a "woe is me" story. I'm really pleased with how well Team Honda is doing, and with all the good stuff in this thread - which I started a year ago tomorrow. 
Back in Feb-March 2011, at about 219K miles, I had a shop refurbish the head. It had one badly burned valve plus others also needed replacement. A friend pulled the head and reinstalled it for me. Following that I did some nice mods - a belly pan, and I disabled the alternator, replacing it with enough batteries to run for hours. Plus some other stuff. Late last summer she was getting 54-55 mpg and I was pleased.
The car is now at about 285 K miles, and losing coolant, it looks like its going out via the head gasket and cylinders. And I'm getting a P0302 code, misfire on cyl. #2. That spark plug was oil covered when examined. So I suspect that again, a valve seal or guide has failed, and the dripping oil has again burned the valve. |
Bugger.
Some of these symptoms sound the same as what I'm seeing on my HX. I'm smelling a whiff of smoke on startup and occasionally getting a miss trouble code (multiple cylinders though) shortly after starting it when it's cold. I'm guessing it is a bad valve seal.
Or maybe a plugged EGR? (<---wishful thinking?)