On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:36:51 -0700, "Bill McKee"
wrote:


"Loogypicker" wrote in message
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On Apr 12, 1:08 pm, John H wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:03:10 -0400, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:01:24 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

Many people love their Hondas, but the one Honda I've owned was the
most troublesome car I've owned.

I had 2 Hondas that were pretty good and not hard to work on but my
current Prelude needs a timing belt and the first line in the shop
manual instructions to replace this belt is "remove engine".
This is the kind of engineering that GM would be proud of (similar to
the old Nova V-8 that required you to loosen a motor mount and raise
the engine to get to one of the spark plugs).
The difference is, this is not some 4 cylinder econobox that they
tried to cram a V-8 in. This car came off the drawing board this way.
BTW Honda will do it for $1000.

I once had a '67 MGB GT. I bought it with a bad clutch, but got it for
$150,
which was a pretty good deal.

The first step in replacing the clutch was, "Remove engine". I know how
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Yeah, but the old MG's and Triumphs were made to be worked on, you
could take the engine out in a couple of hours! Had two Triumphs,
first a 59 TR-4A that I restored and sold, then a bug eyed Sprite that
I didn't get around to restoring when someone out of the blue bought
it.

They were made so you had to work on them. 1/2" head stud on a TR4 with the
strengh of a 1/4" stud. Crap like that.


Working on the MG was a weekly event. Something *always* needed doing.