Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watvlsi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watvlsi!ksbszabo From: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo) Newsgroups: net.auto.tech Subject: Re: 82 Honda accord surges when cold (?) Message-ID: <2777@watvlsi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:48:21 EST Article-I.D.: watvlsi.2777 Posted: Thu Oct 31 23:48:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:39:35 EST References: <401@mit-bug.UUCP> Reply-To: ksbszabo@watvlsi.UUCP (Kevin Szabo) Organization: VLSI Group, U of Waterloo Lines: 20 Summary: 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)