i have a 93 del sol and have no records on gear oil being changed (5 spd) will it hurt to change it just to have fresh fluid?


also i was thinking of flushing out my radiator anyone have a write up

 

its always good to have fresh oil
get honda MTF at the honda dealer for your tranny

 

thanks will do it then tomm! i always like to have records of all maintenance

 

I sure the mannual transmisson use motor oil 10w30 or 10w40 depends on where you live. and for the radiator flush, this is piontless.

 

don't put motor oil in your tranny. go get some mtf from honda.

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this is certainly not pointless. when i did it the first time the car ran great afterwards. i'll try to walk you through it real quick here.

you'll need a jug of coolant and two gallons of distilled water. mix them up into two seperate gallon jugs, you'll only use about 1 here. you'll have the other one for later.

let the car cool off good. turn your heater controls all the way up. remove the white plastic overflow tank and rinse it out. remove the radiator cap, and remove the drain plug at the bottom of the radiator. when it's done draining. remove the lower radiator hose to get any left over stuff out. put that hose and the drain plug back on.

remove the thermostat housing. it's kind of a pain in the *** to get to, it helps a lot to remove the intake, it's right on the passenger side of the head. to do it, remove the upper radiator hose from it, pull the harness plug off, and there's two 10mm bolt's holding it on. one you can get to with like a 3" extension, one without an extension. there's a 10mm bolt holding the ground wire on, make sure you don't waste time removing this. pull the housing off, and remove the theromostat. put the housing back on w/o the thermostat (you can leave it unplugged, but put the hose back).

now pull the upper radiator hose off the radiator, stick a garden hose in the rad and flush it out for a good few minutes until it runs completely clean out of the disconnected hose.

now drain the radiator again just like before, put the hose back on, and reinstall the thermostat with that little jiggle pin facing up. fill the radiator up to the neck with the 50 / 50, and fill the overflow tank up to the min mark. let the car run for about 15 minutes or so with the cap off, let it cool down again, and top off the rad as needed. squeeze the upper hose to get rid of any air bubbles, put the cap back on, let it run till it warms up and check for leaks.

it's worth doing if you haven't for a while.