82 Honda accord surges when cold (?)

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3 total messages Started by Web Dove Fri, 25 Oct 1985 16:47

#505

Author: Web Dove
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1985 16:47

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My accord behaves very poorly on cold wet days.  When you apply the gas
it first accelerates then almost dies then accelerates ... .  This stops
after it warms up.

Stomping on the gas doesn't help.  The car has been recently "tuned"
(plugs, filters) to no avail.

I just put in some gumout.  No results yet.

What I wonder is:
1) are others experiencing this?
2) is there a potential leakage problem in the 10^6 vacuum hoses due
to age?
(I'd hate to have to check that out!)

Re: 82 Honda accord surges when cold (?)

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Author: rjs
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1985 04:48

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>My accord behaves very poorly on cold wet days.  When you apply the gas
>it first accelerates then almost dies then accelerates ... .  This stops
>after it warms up.

	Sounds like an electrical problem. You are probably getting
	moisture in your distributor cap. You may want to get a new set
	of plug wires and a new distributor cap.

	Second thing to check is that the automatic choke is functioning
	properly. If this were the cause I would expect the symptoms to
	occur on any cold day (not just wet ones).

Bob Schneider
ihnp4!hpfcla!hpfcll!rjs

Re: 82 Honda accord surges when cold (?)

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Author: Kevin Szabo
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1985 04:48

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In article <401@mit-bug.UUCP> dove@mit-bugs-bunny.UUCP (Web Dove) writes:
>My accord behaves very poorly on cold wet days.  When you apply the gas
>it first accelerates then almost dies then accelerates ... .  This stops
>after it warms up.
>

Do they use salt on your roads in the winter?  If so, you might have
lost the small intake air heater which sits over the exhaust manifold.
It seems that the engine/carb is very sensitive to the inlet air temp.
My wife's 79 Honda was acting terrible in cold weather until we
had it replaced.  This small piece of sheet metal sits right at the 
front of the engine and gets the full force of winter's corrosion
thrown at it.  They use lots of salt in southern Ontario.

I have also heard of temperature sensors going bad in the carb, but
I don't remember which particular one was the culprit.

			Kevin
-- 
Kevin Szabo' watmath!watvlsi!ksbszabo (U of W VLSI Group, Waterloo, Ont, Canada)

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