(long post)Worst night for the lude. A couple of problems with the lude. - Honda Prelude Forum

ZRoEXzisTeNcE · 08-14-2003, 03:33 AM

i went up to azusa with my cousin to check out the twisties. Midway to the meet up spot, we take a little stop. Before we're about to leave he tells me that he can smell some oil burning from the lude. I pop the hood, check things out, and everything seems aiite.

We get to the meet up spot and i check again to make sure. I open the hood, look things over but this time i can hear something wierd. I look/hear around and find out that the water in my resevoir is BOILING! The little tank was visibly shaking. I was like "WTF?!!?!?!?". that's the first time that's ever happened. i wasn't even driving that hard through the twisties nor did i drive for that long. so i started up the car to check the temp but it was only around 1-2 bars above normal.

So i check the oil for whatever reason. at first i thought i was running super low on oil because i had changed the oil earlier in the afternoon. it was dark so i really couldn't tell on the dipstick. my cousin checked again to make sure and he was telling me that i had too much oil. the mark was above the 2nd hole. i don't know if that made any contribution to the heating problem.

after the lude cools down a bit and everything is aiite we start up again to get through the rest of the route. i start the lude up but now i can't get into reverse. that wasn't too much of a problem. 5min later i'm still trying to get into reverse so i try getting into the other gears. I CAN'T GET INTO ANY OF THE GEARS?!??!? I had to shut the car off and start it up again to get into gear.

Though once the Lude is running and i start goin through the rest of the twisties. the lude jus didn't feel right. Gears 2 and 3 were the ones i was using mostly. i kept gettin locked out whenever i was upshifting to 3rd and when i downshifted to 2nd, the lude felt like it was buckling. shifting in general felt extremely notchy.

then on the way home, as i was coming from each stop light, the lude felt like it was about to stall. i dont' really know how to describe it. it felt like the clutch wasn't catching or that the engine was struggling to keep up. i know my clutch wasn't slipping.

i really don't know what the phuck is up with the lude. it's never been like this before. anyone want to give me some insight on what's up? i think that having too much oil in the car had something to do with it although i don't know what problems, if any, that would cause. but when i got home i checked the oil level again and it was midway between the 2 marks. so i really don't know what's up

CTPRELUDE · 08-14-2003, 12:22 PM

Having too much oil in wouldnt cause any of the symptoms you described. Did you check your coolant level? That could have to do with overheating, but I have no idea what would cause the rest of your problems.

B0b · 08-14-2003, 12:23 PM

how many miles you have on it? what year?

tranny fluid? i don't know.

ZRoEXzisTeNcE · 08-14-2003, 05:10 PM

coolant level was fine and i have just under 80K miles on my 98 base

ForTehNguyen · 08-14-2003, 07:06 PM

water pump could be going out, or something is wrong with the radiator fan. Does the car heat up at idle or when driving? I didnt see you explain the temperature level of the car when the car was moving, only when you restarted it. If the car heats up when in idle, somethings wrong with the radiator fan, if it heats up when driving, could be the water pump, or in both cases could be a thermostat

and this isnt an oil problem

ZRoEXzisTeNcE · 08-14-2003, 11:17 PM

i knoe that the fans are fine. i was only running like 1-2 bars above normal while i was going through the twisties. the thermostat has been replaced within the last couple of months.

i'm really not that worried about the heating problem. i assume that was mostly due to the fact that i spent most of the run above 5k rpm in 2nd.

i'm more worried about getting locked out of all the gears, the tranny shifting like sh1t and how the lude felt like it was bogging down when starting off in first. also when downshifting to 2nd it would feel like it was buckling/bogging down

nickw252 · 08-15-2003, 01:32 AM

If you run low on tranny fluid I know that will cause it not to go into gear. I would top that off and also top off the radiator. Sounds like both of them were low. I have experienced both problems before and that was the problem.

5150 · 08-15-2003, 10:26 PM

for the clutch situation, maybe your slave or master cylinder is leaking? this happened to me in my 98 accord 5speed, i cuoldn't **** even when clutch was full engaged (b/c clutch wasn't fully engaged when pressed all the way down cause of leaky slave cylinder if i remember correctly) hope this helps

Specalk · 08-15-2003, 10:49 PM

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Originally posted by 5150
for the clutch situation, maybe your slave or master cylinder is leaking? this happened to me in my 98 accord 5speed, i cuoldn't **** even when clutch was full engaged (b/c clutch wasn't fully engaged when pressed all the way down cause of leaky slave cylinder if i remember correctly) hope this helps

dude its your slave cylinder,, check your clutch fluid, if you donot know how to do this open your hood, now on the back on the engine bay towards the drivers side theres to fluid contianers with grey lids on them, the one on the left is the bigger of them is the break fluid, the one on the right is the clutch fluid and thats the smaller one, open the lid if its low fill up with break fluid like (dot 3 0r 4) does not matter,, the boot on the prelude breaks and it causes a leak, what youll need to do after to fill it up is pump your clutch pedal alot and make sure before you do this the lids back on so the pressure will build up..

the slave cylinder is normal for given out over time because it get a bluild up of sludge like break lines do and fuel filters to and to keep this from happening u would need to perge the lines all the time to keep it clean but if you donot have the pump to do that your SOL but the dealership will do this.. The slave cylinder cost around $50 bones and around $80 for the install but you can put it in yourself buy youll need to make sure to get all air out of the lines.

someone with a 4th gen told me his went out also around this mileage time like mine and your has and he said it was only a few more thousand miles and his clutch took a crap on him, mine has not yet knock on wood

ZRoEXzisTeNcE · 08-16-2003, 05:06 AM

^^ aiite thanks for the info. i was planning on putting in some of that GM syncromesh