Ok I had believed that my engine had blown its head gasket. Well my uncle who was a mechanic for 30 years did another compression test on it over the weekend and it turns out the motor has excellent compression. It seems that some of the problem was from the hose running from the PCV valve to the intake manifold which had partially collapsed and was causing a strange pressure difference. I cannot confirm this yet, but my uncle claims that on many of these Hondas the PCV valve draws off of the #2 cylinder (the cylinder that was giving me trouble).
Now that I've fixed some of my vacuum hose troubles and such the car runs better, but still after a few minutes of running when I stop at a light or any other place where the car is still for a few minutes it starts running a little rough and when I go to take off I still get a slight sputtering until I hit about 2200rpm or so when it smooths out. It's nothing terrible, but it still isn't right.
Well anyway I tried letting the car idle in the driveway and pulling some plugwires to see what happens. If I pull #1 the car sputters terribly and nearly dies, the same for #3 & #4, but #2 only slightly changes the idle of the motor.
I feel I must also mention that when I removed my intake to change some vacuum lines I noticed that a sort of "sludge" was in the rubber boot my intake slides into on my throttle body. It's like old oil, but there was also water droplets (or something similar to water, not fuel). I looked inside the intake and noticed the same thing, small droplets of some liquid (very small droplets, like mist) and lots of oily residue (not massive amounts, but noticeable).
This crap all started the day I changed three things: plugwires, valve cover gasket, and EGR valve (which turned out to be a busted one too, just like the one it replaced).
My question is, does the EGR valve feed vacuum off of a certain cylinder? Could this be the cause of this? Because before that day the car ran and idled fantastically.
Now that I've fixed some of my vacuum hose troubles and such the car runs better, but still after a few minutes of running when I stop at a light or any other place where the car is still for a few minutes it starts running a little rough and when I go to take off I still get a slight sputtering until I hit about 2200rpm or so when it smooths out. It's nothing terrible, but it still isn't right.
Well anyway I tried letting the car idle in the driveway and pulling some plugwires to see what happens. If I pull #1 the car sputters terribly and nearly dies, the same for #3 & #4, but #2 only slightly changes the idle of the motor.
I feel I must also mention that when I removed my intake to change some vacuum lines I noticed that a sort of "sludge" was in the rubber boot my intake slides into on my throttle body. It's like old oil, but there was also water droplets (or something similar to water, not fuel). I looked inside the intake and noticed the same thing, small droplets of some liquid (very small droplets, like mist) and lots of oily residue (not massive amounts, but noticeable).
This crap all started the day I changed three things: plugwires, valve cover gasket, and EGR valve (which turned out to be a busted one too, just like the one it replaced).
My question is, does the EGR valve feed vacuum off of a certain cylinder? Could this be the cause of this? Because before that day the car ran and idled fantastically.
.....so like i say stuff toilet paper in there....1 at a time so u can keep track of progreess......allso, to see if your rings are leaking, spray some wd40 or some type of lubricant in the cylinder through the sparkplug hole and see if the compression changes from a smaller one to higher....to do this u will need to put the compression gauge on to check the numbers.....well, hope that help.....
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