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Dropped from $1000 to $900. No reason why...waiting on a call to explain. 10% is a significant irritant to me.

Thanks for the insight and offer Jeff. I'll keep you in mind. Only reason car is not gone yet is JunkForCars dropped their price on me. So considering $2200 to rebuild-and-replace through another shop in Hilliard.

Got it. I see it now.

I see $1956 for a rebuilt from Shift Point through CarParts.com. 2005 Honda Lx V6 3.0l

I'm lazy after two other jobs during the week. Then there's the honey-do list of renovations. <sigh>

It's the insurance and the drivers on my policy that pulls me down. With three women with points ranging from 17, 20, and my wonderful trophy wife...you get the picture.

Greg, I'll have to check later this morning...if I can find a tranny for $800...I am liable to be tipped into clobbering my weekend with a project (Mikee?) Yeah paying for labor puts me on the scrap side. Thanks for the input.

Sean, It's due the second timing belt. Oil use is nil. Hardy half-a-quart per 6.5k Mobil 1 changes. I know, premature changing is a waste to some. I say 200k is a badge to my strategy. Tires are actually good for tread...the rubber has aged to where rain is slippery again. I bought the car for my now 20-year-old...second owner. No attachment to the car. Just the idea of scrapping it kinda eats at me. Then there is the 17-year-old who might want a car. Thanks for the input. Appreciate it. Tony

Transmission folded up and died. Car has 200K on it. Engine is strong and well maintained with oil and service. Body is decent, interior is decent, needs rotors and tires soon. Looking on a nudge on what to do with the car. Sell it to junkcars for $1000, part it out, or put a new tranny in (used 100K tranny for $2200 installed, rebuilt for $3000 installed, buy a 100K tanny for $1700 and install myself.) What used to be a simple decision in my life now has be a total ambivalent crossroads where I just want to slip a coin. I don't have any triple sided coins though. Not a "for sale" thread or a "WTB" thread. If you have input in those topic areas PM me. Let the collective intelligence weigh. In 24 hours I'll make a decision. Thanks for your time and feedback in the requested categories.

WTB 2003 - 2007 Honda auto tranny out of a V6 Accord. Transmission fell out of a 2005 Honda Accord

See above

Yes

Well, I am thinking about going to the "dark side" now.

Hey, that CYM FD looks just like the one I saw on I-270 around Dublin awhile back...was stopped in the middle with a Trooper helping the driver?

More money than logic? Put another stock one in and it's going to happen again. There at least 4 of us in Columbus that have blown-up the stock FD rear end...with rotaries. What you're doing is throwing money at it. How a Ford conversion? Then how about a KAZZ? Then at least the innards of a FC into the stock FD housing?

Rob, It's not a big rush...just needs done to make it run. I have other cars to drive. Looking for reasonable cost and a job that won't be the cause of a crash later on. Email sent. Tony

Listen, thin-man, talk like that is going make people talk...like that. So stop that!

As titles says...don't have the time or patience to do a brake line replacement. From master cylinder to wheels. At the minimum, the rears need to be replaced. I have the proportioners for the rears, need to pick up line and associated parts. Someone help me out and make some scratch in the process.

Thanks, Dave. I was guessing that it was NOT the head gasket since I was NOT blowing clouds of smoke and steam out the tail pipe. Going to do the LIM, UIM, and the front head gasket then. Suggestions on best place for gaskets? And shop manuals?

Just got nothing better to do right now.

Should have done that. It was leaking/squirting enough that I THOUGHT it would be obivous. Once I took the gaskets off, It did not seem an obvious gap from LIM to head. http://home.columbus.rr.com/dv8/11.jpg

Mine runs fine...want to chase it? Now?

Sorry, it's a L27 Series one. Confirmed it. L26 was in series one and two, my car is NA, therefore L27. I confirmed it from the VIN and the information on the spare tire cover. The coolant is Dex. The elbow you mention was already replaced a year ago. No leak there. The current leak/squirt was coming from under the coils, straight at the passenger fender well. Ok, it wasn't spraying, but it was launching the coolant out at about 1-3" from under the coils. The coils attach to the head.

Of course one can destroy anything. Don't take it literally. Do you have a personal experience to share?

Anyone a guru in the 3.8L L67? Just removed the UIM and LIM from my daily driver, a 1993 Pontiac Bonneville, and looking for someone to talk to you about if I need to pull the heads off the car--the whole instigator for this project was a radical coolant leak sprouting from just above the block/radiator hose. The dex "Mississippi mud" coolant was squirting out over the sepertine belt. I think this is a head gasket, but everywhere I look people say you cannot blow the head gasket on this engine. Directions to gurus appreciated as well. Thanks. Tony