Accord H22A Swap

[indigolemon]

Good man! Pint time

[jjmartin349571]

Guys I've had a bit of a disaster

I went to work on the car today. I thought the bonnet was watertight, but it obviously wasn't... I didn't have the plenum chamber fitted to the inlet manifold as it made positioning the block/doing up engine mounts easier, and now all the runners are filled with water up to the butterfly plate is that my engine written off?

[Vtecmec]

Should be OK, the liners are FRM and won't corrode, it's not great though. Have you dewatered it yet?

[jjmartin349571]

I hope so... The piston block on my Golf had water standing in it when I was doing the cylinder head and it poured down overnight and that lived so maybe this will be ok. No, not drained it yet - my dad gave me a straw to suck the water out with I can't think of any other way though. Might buy a fluid evacuator from halfrauds tomorrow.

[A1ex]

You can get a hand operated siphon pump that'll do the job. I use one for oil changes

[Vtecmec]

Just take the spark plugs out and drop a tube down there, suck on the pipe and let gravity do the rest.

[jjmartin349571]

Cheers guys, I think I'll be picking one of those hand pumps up tomorrow. Means I can empty the fuel tank too, god knows what that petrol will be like after standing for a year

On the plus side I got the rear mount done up with the help of my Dad and my brother. Now I just need to get a passenger mount fabricated and that's the block finally in. Although I did have to leave one bolt out the gearbox mount as there was no way to get it in

Another problem is I can't do the ball joints up, they just spin... Is there a tool for holding them? I'm thinking it might be worth replacing them whilst I have the chance as the car has done 116K and they look awful, especially after the fight I had undoing them, but is this a majorly difficult job?

[mercutio]

turkey baster will do a lot of it

[Vtecmec]

Save your money and lust get some flexible tube and syphon it out. Just have the outlet lower than the inlet.

Means I can empty the fuel tank too, god knows what that petrol will be like after standing for a year

It'll be fine, when I dropped the tank on the lude, it had 20 litres in there stood for 2 years, not wanting to waste anything, I poured it into my other car's empty fuel tank, and it ran like a charm.

[jjmartin349571]

I've got fish tank siphons here, I've drank enough fish tank water over the last year to know I'm bad at siphoning though I'd rather use a hand pump this time

Interesting to hear about the petrol, for some reason I thought you weren't meant to use it after it was sitting for so long, sediment in the tank or something? Although there's a fuel filter in every car so not sure why the fuss lol.