2000 Honda CR-V Burnt Exhaust Valves

Here are some pictures of the valves from my 2000 Honda CR/V. The number one cylinder has a burnt exhaust valve, as you can see on the left. The lower valves are the exhaust, the upper two are the intakes.

#2 - Big difference.

#3 - Probably the best of the 4.

#4 - Not to shabby for 180,000 miles!

Honda CR/V Update...{taps playing in background}

Well, I finally got my hands on a compression tester. Couldn't find one to rent so I spent $25 and bought a fairly decent one. The results weren't very pretty...

Cylinder #1 30PSI
Cylinder #2 170PSI
Cylinder #3 170PSI
Cylinder #4 170PSI

With those results, I rechecked cylinder#1 just to make sure. Yep, 30PSI. Ouch.

I went ahead an added a bit of motor oil to the cylinder and rechecked it to determine if it was valves or rings. The reading climbed only by about 10PSI, to 40. This would be a pretty clear indication that I have a severe problem with the #1 cylinder valves. Most likely it is the exhaust, because as I mentioned in another post, Honda up and changed the service interval for valve adjustments from every 105,000 miles down to every 30,000 miles because this is a known and recurring issue for them.

Anyone with a little extra time on their hands is welcome to help me find a junkyard cylinder head or even motor for cheap. Alabama Cylinder Head appears to have a $505 solution (with a year warranty too!). I'm certainly going to shop this one around!

FiOS in Philly - - Finally!

Verizon is now taking the television battle to Comcast's own backyard. Philadelphia is where the latest battle in the war of Cable versus Telco's will be waged. NBC's website in Philly released this info... Way to Go Verizon!!!

You may find me a bit biased, I work in a Verizon Video Hub Office. I will tell you that the quality of our network, with all it's extra capacity and redundancy, is far superior to that of anything cable has to offer. Why? We don't stomp our bit rates to squeeze more channels into a data pipe. With more data, you get less compression. Less compression means a better picture, especially for High Def, even more so for sports channels like ESPN HD.

Does Comcast offer over 100 High Definition channels? Nope. They claim they have more HD, but they are counting titles from their Video On Demand (VOD) library as "HD offerings". Verizon has plenty of HD VOD in addition to our 100+ HD channels.

Got FiOS?? Why Not?????????????

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!!

Today my parents celebrate their anniversary!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU...HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU...

We hope you both have a great day. Take a moment and celebrate!! God Bless & Love You Both!

Congratulations!

Love,

Scott, Deb and the Kids!

My wife is funny!

So I am sitting here explaining the car to my wife....she says that CRV stands for Certified Recall Vehicle....ha ha ha!