Hey All,

I am new to the Honda Experience, and I must say they are a really nice Car.

I brought a 1987 Honda Integra, while it is not the newest or latest Car, it is brilliant to drive and has a suprising amount of Power.

2 Problems I am having:

When the car idles the oil light comes on and it viabrates alot. This is only when it idles, when you touch the accelarator it is smooth as can be and the oil light goes off. The car is full of oil.

It seems to leak a bit of oil from the "switch" and people tell me it may need a new switch to fix the problem. Would not mind some advice on if you guys think this is true, and how much it would cost me for a new switch.


Second problem is in the morning when you first start her up it wont change out of 1st gear. It sits in first gear only until it either warms up, or if u get it to about 7000rpm it will change. After its warm it changes gears fine. Any idea what this could be?


Thankyou in advance for your help guys!


Shaun

 

Car is a 4speed Auto by the way. Left that bit out.

 

vibrations are most likely motor mounts. understand that your talking about rubber on an almost 20 year old car. And as for the transmission question, i'd take it to a tranny shop and have them clean the solinoids. They get dirty dirty after a long time and not getting the fluid changed out regularly. It should only cost you 50 dollars or so to have a good transmission shop to clean the solinoids out. hope this helps

 

The oil light comming on and a possible leak at the oil pressure sending unit (I'm assuming what you meant by "switch") I would say just replace the sending unit. It's not hard at all and they're really not expensive at all. The oil may be leaking at the sending unit giving it a false reading and then triggering the light. I had an 89 Integra... It ran great until it got totalled. It still ran after that and my oil light came on at idle after I beat the living **** out of it. I held it to the floor for about 3 minutes straight and then the oil light started comming on kinda dim at idle... Then I held it to the floor for another 11 minutes and 40 seconds and BOOM... haha, I have it on video too
Sorry about all that... But yea, just swap out the Oil Pressure Sending Unit and let us know what happens


Modified by JohnnyH at 8:01 PM 5/15/2005