Well new to Hondas and cars actually. Have only had trucks my whole life. Since moving and putting on 60miles a day it's time to park my cummins. Ended up buying an v6 accord ex for 375.00. Yes that's right 375.00. 130k, perfect interior and awesome body on it. Now the bad. Needs a K member which is currently on its way to my house. Also supposedly has a bad tranny. Drove it 10 miles to my house and went through all the gears. Not sure how these trannys are supposed to shift but this one seems to shift a little hard. Now after sitting a year it's developed the famous 800-1,500 rev. Which I've read it could be a few things like air in coolant or fitv. I'm sure the year old gas in it isn't helping so what's the best way to drain the 3/4's gas out of it? I was gonna Pull the supply and just hot wire the pump. Any better way or is this pretty much the simplest way?

Now do you guys think I should just start looking for a tranny now or push this one till it dies? Fluid looks new and red which I'm sure it was flushed not that long ago and that's prob what caused it to go. Last owner told me the d4 light was flashing and it wouldn't shift. That's why he parked it last year and it sat ever since.

Any other things to do while I'm tearing this pile apart? Lol

 

Retrieve the codes first. Transmission functionality is greatly affected by engine running condition.

 

Yeah forgot to mention. I checked with my scanner and no codes were present. Battery was stone dead tho so may of cleared them. I've let it idle for awhile and still nothing

 

Bouncing idle can be air in coolant, FITV or IACV. First thing to due is set base idle (Warm car up, disconnect IACV plug, set idle with the flathead screw on the throttlebody, shut car off, reconnect the plug to the IACV, disconnect battery for 10 secs, reconnect battery) then bleed the coolant system, then clean the IACV and if that doesn't work replace the IACV. To remove the fuel, there should be a 14 or 17mm drain plug on the tank, if not then just hotwire the fuel pump and disconnect the fuel send line from the rail or filter. If the trans was flushed then your probably right about it being the cause for the hard shift, old transmissions tend to become friends with their fluid. I'd fix the idle issue, then drive the car for 30-40 miles to see if you can get the D4 light flashing again, try and retrieve any codes you can from the TCU. If you don't find any codes and can live with the hard shifts, id just run the transmission for as long as you can and buy another used trans when the time comes.

 

Well got 90% of the gas out. Got a full tank of 93 now. Also cleaned throttle body and up and down rev seemed to of left. Well so far anyway. Put 26 miles on it so far. Has some weird tranny shifts tho. Just got the p0780 code of my way home from town tonight. So I'm guessing tranny is on its way out

 

Hows that trans doing?

 

Its still going.. Made it about 400 miles with no codes.. Just the other day the 0780 code came back.. Tried clearing it but just keeps coming back right after now.. It actually feels like it shifts better while the code is present lol.. Not sure why it would and also once warm it shifts pretty decent.. Local builders want 2k for a rebuild.. Just scared to get a junk yard one and end up having the same problem.. If I do get it rebuilt ill end up pulling the tranny myself and taking it somewhere to get done. Ill save some cost there anyway or at least try to.. So far 500 miles and still running good... Working up the motivation to do the K member swap lol