My 30k engine out service.

Nice pics Craig. Any more?

 

Be careful with those fuel filters. There is a guy on ebay claiming to sell 348 filters that are bosch and will work but are too small in diameter. It is very important that you either get the right diameter or fab new secure brakets. If the filter is allowed to wiggle up and down it puts more stress and increases possible breakage failure in your fuel lines. Such a failer can spray fuel on hot headers and you will burn!

In this pic is the correct bosh filter and next to it is the improper small ones
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Some of the very later cars did have smaller fuel filters.

 

Thank you! Does anyone know the cutoff year for the small filter?

 

I know when I did my engine service recently the filters Ricambi sent where the larger and did not fit. They had to be smaller. mines a '94 MY.

 

I have to do the flywheel-packing thing this weekend. Keep posting sir! Scott

 

ATA boy Scott!

I just love it when guys man up and do their own work.

 

Cheers FBB! Interesting to know.

 

Yeah mine is a '91 model and I run with the large filters

 

My '89 uses the larger filters

 

Well if any later 348 owner who uses the small filters wants some I've got 2 new ones. I paid 60 bucks for the pair. Or if someoen has the large ones and needs the small ones I'll swap. I'm too lazy to make a new bracket so I keep buying the big ones when I need them.

 

Tell the truth... when you had everything out did you get a sick feeling in the bottom of your stomach that you might not get it back together ok? Love the pics but you are a braver man than me doing all that work!

 

Be sure to use some Hondabond HT on ALL the gaskets. If you want your car to be leak free, go get a tube, and apply it conservatively. All you need is a thin layer, just enough so that it barely beads out when you tighten things down. Be sure to put it on both sides of the gaskets.

 

Nice! They look sweet!

 

yeah they look awesome!

 

Nice powered coating job. I had mind done the same way. I like the shiny look better than the crinkle. Plus it's way easier to keep clean. Just wipe it down with a wet cloth.

 

I've rebuilt very large nordberd marine diesels in power houses using 10 ton over head box cranes to lift the crank 10,000 of an inch for the thrust bearing removal and I would be scared to attempt this if I had a f car of my own .My question is where did you get the shop manual, spec's etc...

 

If you have done that, then working on a 348 will be a snap. I just got done pulling the heads of my Integra and putting in a new head gasket. It was harder to work on that thing than on my 348. The 348 has WAY more room to work with, even with the engine in stu, than the Integra does. Everything is crammed in there.

Don't be scared of the name, is still an internal combustion engine. The nuts and bolts don't know what they are on. Lefty-loosey, righty-tighty. Nothing to it.

 

what did the job cost , how much savings? Time ,effort, level of difficulty,etc are you a mechanic?