Tag Archives: honda civic
Seat cover/foam replacement 88-89 civic to 90-91 civic.
This covers swapping foam and the cover from an 88-89 over to the frame of a 90-91 civic wagon. This is for the front seats, and can also apply to same year swaps. Also it might just come in handy for taking the seat apart if you’re going to be repairing the foam. The grossness […]
Alternator replacement, swapping out the strangled hamster for the juicy swizzle stick
So the old alternator was giving up the ghost. Flickering battery light when coming to a stop and a horrendous noise that sounded of a chorus comprised of a thousand strangled hamsters.
Control your arms, on the down low. + springy struttin
In making this thing not such a wallowing hippo on the road I’ve decided to take on the installation. This is the first time I’ve dug into this, and found that it wasn’t too terrible of an undertaking. Though that is a reason I bought an easy to work on Civic. On with the show.
The flasher! Flashing brake light
Maybe it annoys you, that's probably a good thing as it means it got your attention. This is an install of a flasher module for the high mount brake light in the civic wagon. And subsequent install of a resistor to get the light to work correctly.
Led headlights, are they any good?
LED technology has progressed to the point that it's viable for use in vehicle headlights. Higher end newer cars are using them, but how do the eBay kits hold up? I've seen some sell for a couple hundred and I'm sure could go higher. These ones I've picked up for around $80 at the time […]
Switchback turn signal/running lights from superbrightleds.com
O.k. So the idea behind this is you have a dual purpose bulb. I wanted some brighter attention getting running lights as well as just a nice bright turn signal. You can see on the bulb itself it actually has two arrays of LEDs. The yellow ones are bright white. The orange ones are the […]
88-91 civic gauge bezel repair.
The top tabs of my gauge bezel were completely destroyed. I picked up some marine grade epoxy from the Home Depot and filled the broken out bits in. Then drilled some new holes. It's working great. You can use some tape or foil as a backing for the epoxy while it sets. The marine grade […]
Change your fuel filter!
Do you know when your fuel filter was changed last? If the answer is no, change the damn thing. I should have done this as soon as I bought the wagon, but check this out… Grosssssss! That's what came out of the filter.
Slippery when wet… Sanded
So your plastic lenses are hazy and you want to clean them up. Plastic polish helps, but you shoulda really look at wet sanding. You can get pretty good results by hand, so you don’t need an expensive buffer. It’s worth the extra bit of time and money though.