Some time after I woke up I checked Amazon and all that it would say was that my dowel pins were out for delivery, they would arrive by 2100. My brother asked to go to Walmart, we stopped to get the mail, and at 1600 my dowel pins were in the mailbox.
Cool. I was just going to Walmart. I would be back right away, you know, after driving 4.4 miles each way, and navigating a huge parking lot and store.
I spent a while setting up a folding table, organizing my tools, and setting up my phone on my tripod. Then I spent a few minutes installing the dowel pins and head gasket, spraying WD40 on the heads, and setting the head in place.
I don't know that this needs to be four steps, but I completed four steps today!
Also in the past two months!
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73. It can be a little confusing figuring out which way the head gasket gets installed sometimes.
74. They're marked with an up this one is not that i can see but looking at the configuration on the engine block there really is only one way for this to go on and i believe it to be just like this.
75. Spray a little WD-40 around the tops of the pistons and the piston rings to help lubricate things on first startup.
76. Reinstall the dowel pins in the front and drop the new head gasket over it.
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When I asked Mom if she had seen some studs she insisted that I have my brother help me look.
"He is a good finder!"
"When I can get him to try!"
I kept telling him to help me look and he kept trying to go back and watch television. I had not looked on my work table for the dowel pins, but the insane monkeys with whom I live always put junk on that.
I kept telling the younger one to look there and then to clear off the table.
I swear that every single time he removed something from the table I needed to say "Clear off the table!" again and he kept just knocking things off the table onto the floor--and into all of the junk on the floor.
Cool. I am sure there are important things in there I may never see again.
The old monkey stepped on the C9 Christmas lights I bought to keep her plants alive, so I needed to clean up glass.
She insisted they were LEDs, which they definitely weren't.
She finally admitted they got a little warm, but just barely.
C9 is the largest size!
The young monkey stepped on another one and I swear that I have shards of glass in my hands.
When he had the table mostly cleared off he started trying to move it and like everything else stupid he did today, I kept yelling at him to stop and he never slowed down.
Can you tell how grateful I am that Mom insisted I had him help?
Having him help invariably goes just as slow as soloing it, but with infinitely more yelling.
I found a bunch of screwdrivers, kept telling him to put everything but the screwdrivers in a box, kept telling him not to put the screwdrivers in the box, and apparently he snuck them in when I wasn't looking, so I needed to make him remove the screwdrivers.
I ran across some other tools that will be going in one of my toolboxes.
I recycled and threw away some more stuff, but I stopped well before we went through everything he knocked off the table, let alone the junk that was already under the table (and the stuff he knocked off the table into preexisting junk).
Then the corner is full of all kinds of junk.
Anyway, I found a new stud still in the bag.
It must have been one of the fasteners that I ordered for Chorizo, couldn't find, replaced, and then found, but it is nice to have a part number.
This fits every Honda made since 1984, including my 1987 Honda Prelude Si and my 1990 and 1999 Accords.
Norm Reeves Honda Vista sells them for $1.71, but I am tempted to go to a junkyard and pull all of the studs.
"Hey, do you have any Hondas."
"Sure, which ones?"
"Anything made since 1984."
Since this has been used on every Honda since I was 5 I am not worried about ensuring it is the right part, but I will probably need other parts, which probably have changed over the years.
Norm says it cannot find my VIN, although VehicleHistory didn't have a problem.
Norm kept saying I had an Si, so I manually selected my vehicle:
Enter my information?! You have it right there!
I put in the part number and it showed the original page, but didn't show where it goes on my car.
It also doesn't show my car anymore.
I went back to where it showed my car, searched for "intake manifold bolt," and it showed too many parts, so I searched for the manifold, and it only shows 2, the rest are bolts. 92900-08028-1B
There are 3 studs on the exhaust, but I needed to pull up the head to see that.
I clicked on the cart and it says it is empty.
I am not buying from this place!
It says $8.06 for 4 studs and $18.95 to ship, $27.67 total.
I am going to find the best price--or place that will ship it the fastest--but I am going to skip to tossing and turning.
I still feel depressed that I spent a ton of time and $800 building Mom a greenhouse and for 18 months all that she has done is complain about it, lie about giving me permission to build it, and yell at me to tear it down.
Then I tried to work on my 2002 Civic, spent all day searching and cleaning the garage, spent $15 on dowel pins, spent a good while setting up, and then after 3-4 minutes I needed to spend much longer putting away everything and order some more parts.
Also, Mom identifies as a severe diabetic, I bought her one of these to hide sweets from my brother for when she wakes up with low blood sugar, and then asked why she didn't put it away.
"Oh, he already figured it out!"
By the way, I found a dowel pin. I kept telling my brother to find the other one and he kept trying to watch Hallmark.
Who knows if I will ever see it again.
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