jcollins6
Well-Known Member
I have a 99 coupe F23A1 engine accord with 230,XXX miles on it that started running a little weird a last week.
I left work and the car was extra sluggish yesterday. Gas mileage is circling the drain, around 50-60 miles less than normal. For the entire trip it wouldn't rev past 4K. The enginge would bounce up and down like a govenor @ 4K.
If I let off the gas the idle goes straight down and stalls. After sitting for a half hour, at my destination, The car would idle past 4K but wouldnt hold anywhere. I would floor the gas and watch the tach hit 5K and then slip down to 0 and stall while I held the gas.
I hear an extra noise from the intake sounding like air is going somewhere, I just dont know where. The car didn't stay running without me keeping the gas fluctuating. It does idle really really rough with a tendency of stalling out.
The car is not overheating or throwing a CEL. I changed plugs and wires 3-4 months ago with NGK and pulled and cleaned the egr valve at the same time(thank you for the DIY!). I do not know if the timing belt has been changed after the 200K point.
The car does burn oil, I do not always get the smoke out of the tail pipe, but I do get a build up on the rear bumper that is a pain in the *** to clean. I do not see oil on the ground but I do have to fill it regularly. Oil level was fine yesterday.
I suspect either rings, or a bad cat.
I am going to do a compression test tonight to either confirm or rule out that area.
I paid a grand for this car for a dd to get better mileage than my truck. I don't know how much money I want to dump into this car, depending what is entirely wrong with it.
also, I had someone rev the engine while i put my hand by the exhaust and did feel exhaust coming out but my hand smelled like crazy exhaust gas ugliness even after washing my hands a couple times. The smell of the exhaust was very rich.
Help please, oh and I have searched through this site and have found some similiar threads but I want to present my issue to get some opinions.
Thanks in advance.
Jason
I left work and the car was extra sluggish yesterday. Gas mileage is circling the drain, around 50-60 miles less than normal. For the entire trip it wouldn't rev past 4K. The enginge would bounce up and down like a govenor @ 4K.
If I let off the gas the idle goes straight down and stalls. After sitting for a half hour, at my destination, The car would idle past 4K but wouldnt hold anywhere. I would floor the gas and watch the tach hit 5K and then slip down to 0 and stall while I held the gas.
I hear an extra noise from the intake sounding like air is going somewhere, I just dont know where. The car didn't stay running without me keeping the gas fluctuating. It does idle really really rough with a tendency of stalling out.
The car is not overheating or throwing a CEL. I changed plugs and wires 3-4 months ago with NGK and pulled and cleaned the egr valve at the same time(thank you for the DIY!). I do not know if the timing belt has been changed after the 200K point.
The car does burn oil, I do not always get the smoke out of the tail pipe, but I do get a build up on the rear bumper that is a pain in the *** to clean. I do not see oil on the ground but I do have to fill it regularly. Oil level was fine yesterday.
I suspect either rings, or a bad cat.
I am going to do a compression test tonight to either confirm or rule out that area.
I paid a grand for this car for a dd to get better mileage than my truck. I don't know how much money I want to dump into this car, depending what is entirely wrong with it.
also, I had someone rev the engine while i put my hand by the exhaust and did feel exhaust coming out but my hand smelled like crazy exhaust gas ugliness even after washing my hands a couple times. The smell of the exhaust was very rich.
Help please, oh and I have searched through this site and have found some similiar threads but I want to present my issue to get some opinions.
Thanks in advance.
Jason