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California98Civic · 03-27-2020, 08:05 PM

There it is, and I thoroughly cleaned the BLACKENED oil off the front of the engine. Hopefully it no longer leaks. Looks clean eh? I repainted the white lettering on the oil filler cap. Make it pretty! I took off heat shield to strip black paint and polish the aluminum for reduced emisivity and higher reflectance.

Valve clearance set for max overlap again, new valve cover gasket, new spark plug hole gasket, new bolt gasket, finished polishing "Honda," and applied boiled linseed oil to the entire cover.

It is a coping mechanism as COVID-19 begins to overrun my county.

03-27-2020, 08:05 PM	#461 (permalink)
California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,172 Times in 1,469 Posts	There it is, and I thoroughly cleaned the BLACKENED oil off the front of the engine. Hopefully it no longer leaks. Looks clean eh? I repainted the white lettering on the oil filler cap. Make it pretty! I took off heat shield to strip black paint and polish the aluminum for reduced emisivity and higher reflectance. Valve clearance set for max overlap again, new valve cover gasket, new spark plug hole gasket, new bolt gasket, finished polishing "Honda," and applied boiled linseed oil to the entire cover. It is a coping mechanism as COVID-19 begins to overrun my county. Attached Thumbnails __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.