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To what? sounds like a dick move but that is their business model - pay as little as possible for something they are going to part out.

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

I own/operate a small auto repair shop just west of the city. I do these regularly (Honda v6 Trans replacements). If you still need it replaced my advice to you is to stay away from a used/junkyard trans. I can do these for about $2600 with a Reman trans with a 3 year 50k mile warranty. I've done many, many of these with no issues or problems after repair regardless of mileage.

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.

car-part.com

 

Use the dash. It searches wrecking yards.

Got it. I see it now.

Car-Part lists a local transmission with 112k for $800. $1700 seems steep, and if you're just going to fix it and sell it then you just need a transmission that works, not necessarily one with low miles.

 

With 200k miles it looks to be a $3500 car. Paying someone to replace the transmission is pretty close to a wash vs scrapping it for a grand. Installing a $1000 transmission yourself and then selling it seems like the way to go if you have the time.

I see $1956 for a rebuilt from Shift Point through CarParts.com.

2005 Honda Lx V6 3.0l

I would sell it as-is and move on with life, but I've been known to be lazy.

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

Being a mechanic i'm a little biased towards fixing, especially knowing there is no way I'd spend over $1k.

 

A good working car is just more valuable, if you can't fix it yourself then sell it to someone who can. I think paying over $2k unless you're attached to it is stupid, and it doesn't sound like you are.

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.

Car-Part lists a local transmission with 112k for $800. $1700 seems steep, and if you're just going to fix it and sell it then you just need a transmission that works, not necessarily one with low miles.

 

With 200k miles it looks to be a $3500 car. Paying someone to replace the transmission is pretty close to a wash vs scrapping it for a grand. Installing a $1000 transmission yourself and then selling it seems like the way to go if you have the time.

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.

What you really need to ask yourself is how much do you like the car? If you like the car, then fix it and carry on driving it.

 

Has it had it's second timing belt?

How much oil is the engine using?

What are the tires like?

 

What I'm getting at here is what is the rest of the car like mechanically? If you spend say somewhere near $2,000 to fix it that's like having a $170 a month car payment for a year as long as nothing else goes wrong that is a major expense. The question then becomes can you get something that will be better than the car fixed for $170 per month. If no, then fix it and drive the thing.

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

youll have to welcome tony to the internet first

See above

Wonder if we can get Tony to post in this thread?

Yes

k, well lets race now as is and see what happens...ur single turbo to my nitrous....dont be scarred yasser, ill put the small jets in..

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

must not look very hard?

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?

when you needing it done?

 

see sig

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

I moved this to our Sponsor section, Tony.

 

BTW, you're sexy.

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

check the waterpump and the hose your kind of stuck there if you can't find the leak bite the bullet and throw a new set of head gaskets on it to be sure you cover all the bases

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?

look who came from the dead

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

And how many of them are still running?...

 

I just think the rotary is a weak platform.

 

However rx7 store does do some sweet stuff.

 

Exavier is sweet but I think he is also changing his platform.

 

 

 

:asshole:

 

Touche"

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.

You can indeed blow a headgasket on an L67.

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