well, a 20 min oil change took me a little over an hour today.

i got under the car, saw some oil, and checked the oil pan bolts, well i was missing one nut, one bolt, and about 3-5 different ones were loose (not real loose, but they use a goood tightening). its odd, i never noticed a loss in oil either. i even had to take the tranny brace off and tighten one under there.

oh and i found out the right side header stud is snapped off. oh well, ill put some RTV on it later.

what made me check them was when i put a 100K mile motor into my other integra, i noticed one of the oil pan bolts was missing. so i figured hell, might as well check the R

check your bolts people.

 

don't have a R but will check mine next time i do an oil change

 

good deal. doesnt hurt to check them on any mileage car

 

That is pretty common on high mileage hondas with the rubber oil pan gaskets. They harden and shrink up.

 

yeah, i remember people mentioning it.

my R has 122K on it.. bought it at 117K. so i have to go around making sure things are gooood.

 

they're tricky bolts
you can't tighten it too much or the rubber will come out of the groove and you will get a leak from the oil pan gasket
just toque it to specs with some crazy silicone

 

Mine were finger loose at 50k

 

Had one missing @ 58k when I bought my car. Good thing to check people

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by baonest &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah, i remember people mentioning it.

my R has 122K on it.. bought it at 117K. so i have to go around making sure things are gooood. </TD></TR></TABLE> 86k here

 

Ok now I'll go check, don't want to loose oil in this thing.