Honda civic 1998 VTI, reconditioning

[aziz.rehan]

Looks great

[umairjamil6]

Looks good

[waleed2409]

Also following work was done by me at my home.

1. Removed all seats, complete carpet, gear panel, and washed all the seats and carpet. Replaced the driver seat runner channel which is used to move the seat forward and bckward as it was worn out and made the seat move side to side.

2. Did not like the clutch pedal so removed both the master and slave cylinders and found that the o ring were worn out so replaced the rubber kits of both master and slave cylinders. Filled with new clutch fluid. Now its working perfect alhamdulillah.

3. Replaced the existing guage cluster with OEM one which i bought from bilal gunj.

4. Opened all the door panels and cleand and greased the power window channels, removed the after market central locking system and connected the existing OEM power locks (which was still working better then the steelmate after market system). Replaced the door wire harnesses of driver and passenger side doors. Installed new guchas in both the front doors along with its rubber covers (as great ustaads of our country tore the rubber cover and made the wires bare to test different wires at different tims for different reasons over the pat 24 years and never bothered to at least tape them, so they were naked wires in there). For this i had to remove both front fenders which was a tiresome job at home with no professional equipment.

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Then the center console was broken in many places (again by the great mistrees who did not bother to see and remove the required Screws and intead tried to pull it and broke it from many places) . It was around 7 k from sultan kho. So i took it out. Cleaned it throughly and repaired it as best as i could. Took me 2 days to do the job but i m very happy with my hard work.

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These r the pics when i was doing the work. Used soldering iron to melt and repair the broken pieces. And then i used body poteen to fill the gaps and uneven surface. After tht the wkrst part of sanding it for hours n hours. N finally painting it black. Now its good as new. Will post the after pics later.

[hasankhurshid29]

Replaced the existing guage cluster with OEM one which i bought from bilal gunj.

Was your existing one having issue?

[umairjamil6]

Wow man i am seriously impressed by the amount of diy and hard work you are doing

[waleed2409]

It was modified by the previous owner in which he installed red LEDs. It was giving a very unsophisticated look. Very flashy. I personally like OEM / stock things better. There is beauty in simplicity. Also its speed needle calibration was bit out but tht wasn't the main reason.

[waleed2409]

Thanks. I enjoy this work

[waleed2409]

Next. Following things were done at workshop by mechanics.

1. Replaced whole wheel assembly (tyres, rims(OEM), wheel hub assembly (complete including the top bar, brake assembly)

2. All 4 godaas of front wheels.

3. Clutch started to slip so changed the clutch plate, pressure plate, throw bearing, flywheel bearing. (wish i had chnged the fly wheel too)

4. Both front z-links.

5. 3 engine mounts / foundations aka thiaa

6. Some noise was coming from the floor which was of the leaking exhaust pipe. So repired it and installed new bottle

7. Generator malfunctioned. So replaced the carbon bushes etc

8. Generator belt broke. Which was caused by pulley malfunction so replaced the crabkshaft puley and all the belts with new ones.

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Still there are a lot of works pending in my list but all r non essential works for the improvement of the car and to satisfy my hobby cravings ️

There is still some oil seapage (not leaking) at the back of the engine head, under the VTEC area. I have replaced the vtec jan, distributor o ring, head cover gasket, these steps have drastically reduced the oil seapage (wish you would have seen my car when i got it) but still i being a perfectionist, m not satisfied. I don't agree to people saying k "purani gari hai hallki phulki seapage toe hogi as long as u dont need to refill the oil and its not causing any problem so no worry". I want my engine to be dry and clean like a new one. I would say my work has shown quite an improvement in the area but there is one thing i m missing.
Can anyone help me? I personally think engine oil from vtec but i have replaced the vtec jan. Also there is no leaking as even if the car sits at one place for even a week and there i not even a ingle drop of oil under the car. But its seaping slightly which is making the area wet.

[hasankhurshid29]

If you share the cost of your work, it will be very helpful

[waleed2409]

Yeah i hv no issue but al this work has been done in different phases from August onwards till date. I don't exactly remember but if ask i will try to tell u the numbers.

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There was a small crack in the right bottom of the Wind shield. After research i ordered a repair kit from USA and did the repair myself. I am happy with the results as the crack hs not spread and its now not that evident. Following are before and aftr pics

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Before

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After

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Well last weekend had another 2 days of working.
Wiper washer switch was not working which splashes the washer fluid on the wind screen. On diagnostics it was revealed that the motor was bad. So i removed the front bumper and washer fluid bottle after removing the power steering fluid bottle out of the way and inspected the motor.
It was jammed due to rust and debris and gunk. So throughly cleaned the bottle and cut open the motor with a saw (as there ws no provision to open it) and cleaned it, put it back, applied magic to the cutted portion and silicon to seal it and it was working again alhamdulillah .

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Also after service of my car engine bay area, my radiotor fan was acting out.
When i reached home after the service i noticed that the fan was continuously on and even when i switched off my engine and took the keys out, still it was on. I know weird....
I did everything including taking the CB of the fan out fron the under hood fuse box but the fan kept on running and running. So i started my car so as not to completely drain my battery.
After sometime the fan went off. Thank god right??
But actually no. Cz then it stopped working completely and would not come on even when the car coolant was hot enough.
So after a lot if checking and inspection i found that some electrician (at this point i don't even want to discuss about our ustaads) had put some relay and did some stupid stuff with the wiring just short of the radiator harness connector.
I tried the understand the science that electrician used but was completely dumbfounded as it made no sense at all.
With the help of multimeter i was able to dignose that this relay was faulty. But wanted to understand why it is installed there before removing / replacing it.
But no matter how much i tried i found no possible explanation why it was installed as both the power and ground wires were good. The coolant temperature switch which triggerd the fan was also good, its wire and circuit ws also good. So i removed the relay and its stupid wiring and returned it to OEM circuit and the fan is now alhamdulillah running perfect uptill now.

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Overall a good weekend of good work. Except for one small thing. The washer bottle is loosing fluid. Its probably because of the rubber seal where the motor goes in the bottle. I might have to remove the bumper again and re seal it. (it sucks) but good thing is that i did not fully installed it back. Its just hanging by a few screws cz i wanted to check if there was any leaks or problems before putting it back completely.

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Also my front chrome grill and the honda emblem (H emblem) was rusted badly amd was in a bad shape. So painted them both and they r good as nee and ready to be installed back now.