For a 99 Civic LX 4-door sedan, can someone please post the specs for -- -- rotor thickness -- brake pad thickness -- drum shoe thickness, if it uses drums in the rear I have a friend with this car who gets vibrations in the steering wheel when she brakes. Anything else you'd check right now?

Anyone have any special tips for this? I am struggling mightily with this for my front lower driver's side control arm on my 91 Civic LX, 176k miles. I heated the whole arm in the oven for about half an hour at 150 degrees F. I applied soap and then PB Blaster. I did not clean the control arm...

It helps to have the new one in your hand when you're on the left side of the dash, near the driver's usual knee location, trying to spot it. Alternatively, maybe the pictures and photos at the following sites will...

Any sage advice on whether to replace the other tires or how to rotate them at this point? Background: 1991 Civic, 179k miles. One of my (then) front tires displayed inboard wear about 7500 miles ago. Back then I rotated it to the rear, did some suspension work, and think I found the main...

Honda OEM pads do not cost significantly more than high quality aftermarket pads. From my reading, they are made for Honda brake rotors and so will yield less dust and noise and likely less wear on the rotors. I recommend purchasing them from www.slhonda.com or www.hondaautomotiveparts.com...

1991 Civic Sedan owner here, 182k miles, original and only owner. The owner's manual for this Honda prescribes either ordinary 10W-30 or 10W-40 (depending on expected ambient temperatures) for the manual transmission fluid (MTF), with a change interval of 2 years/60k miles, whichever comes...

If it's torn, the conventional and emphatic counsel is dirt got into the joint, and it's going to fail soon. Depending on how experienced you are, I'd buy a half-shaft (which holds the inner and outer boots and joints for one side) for $70 at Autozone (lifetime warranty) and do it...

91 Civic, manual transmission, here. I am doing a timing belt replacement. The front of the car is on jackstands, and I put the transmission in 5th gear. I freed the pulley bolt just fine, but then I wanted to rotate the engine so #1 piston was at TDC blah blah. I thought turning either of the...

91 Civic, 197k miles I replaced the timing belt and tensioner the other day. I cookbooked my way through setting the tension, not knowing how things worked, and am pretty sure the rat-a-tat-tat I heard from the engine is the belt, somewhat loose, hitting the upper timing belt cover, for one.I...

Can anyone please identify the nut pictured at the following site? http://home.earthlink.net/~honda.lioness/id16.html It's head is 12 mm across. It has some sort of locking mechanism. It sheared off its stud, presumably due to age and the vibrations that resulted while I was grinding off the...

I would like to get a decent ball joint lifter tool for under $30. Tegger's site http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/disconnect.html describes several. I am aiming for the second category. Here are two in that...

>Consumer Rights Trouble: http://linktool.uni.cc/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb3R0cm91YmxlLmNvbS9sZWdhbC9jb25zdW 1lcl9sYXcvY2FyX2J1eWluZ19pbmRleC5odG1s&a=Y2Fy >"75% of people surveyed would rather go > to the dentist than a car dealership" Ha. Good one. Gotta say that's pretty much how I feel. When I next...

I thought this an interesting read, for those silly enough to believe gender bias is all in a person's head: http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/45991/article.html

The site below says the JDM ZC was originally installed as follows: ZC Honda CRX (JDM) 1990-1993 ZC Honda CRX Si16/1.6i (JDM) 1989-1992 ZC Honda CRX Si (JDM) 1985-1987 ZC Acura Integra (JDM) 1990-1993 ZC Acura Integra (JDM) 1986-1989 ZC Honda Civic Si (JDM) 1986-1987 ZC Honda Civic Si (JDM)...

Got a couple of bad, approx. 6-inch cracks in my 1991 Civic LX's lower dr. side windshield tonight, emanating from a quarter size mash mark, presumably from a rock hitting the car at relatively low speed. Sounded like a bullet. Darn. From many years ago, there are also two dime size mash marks...

When setting the ignition timing of 1990s Honda cars, how critical is it for the fixed pointer to line up exactly with the center BTDC timing mark (of the three BTDC marks) on the crankshaft pulley? Background: The second step for setting the timing on my 91 Civic (as well as other Hondas) is to...

Good work. A few questions for the archives, since this has been a bit of a contentious issue in the past here, with some saying PCV valve malfunctioning won't affect mileage noticeably, and others saying oh yes it can. (I replaced mine on my 91 Civic in 2003, and the mileage shot up 10-20%. The...

One of my 91 Civic LX's rear, side brake lights partly went out recently. Moving the bulb back and forth caused it to come on again. Then I found another socket and bulb where this was happening. Is there a clever way or tool to get some sand paper, a file, spray, or whatever into the socket to...

Has anyone used Autozone's loaner coil compressor on the suspension coils of an older Civic or Accord? My cheap-o Harbor Freight $7 coil spring compressor worked pretty well for disassembling my 91 Civic's suspension system front coil/damper assemblies. Getting them all back together is becoming a...

My 91 Civic is due for some new ignition wires. I started checking OEM online Honda parts places that I have used in the past. Shipping seems to have shot through the roof. From reports here and some other shopping, I have become vaguely aware that dealerships increasingly offer parts online at...