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- Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:20 pm #252254 Its time for me to change my piston rings. Ive been having dark grey/ blueish smoke out of my exhaust when I rev pass 3000 rpm. In the process I will have to replace the rod and crank shaft bearings as I will be taking the rods out with the pistons to change the piston rings. Also, I will replace all the gaskets and O-rings in the cylinder head including the Head Gasket.

I have never done this, only the head gasket replace and I want to know what tools and things I need in order to do this job. I already have the Haynes manual for the car. I'm planning to do this by myself as I dont trust anybody to do it, last time I allowed a mechanic to do a major work for me, he fucked up many things in my car so I want to learn to do stuff by myself. My engine is a d15b7.

All suggestions highly appreciated. Thanks

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- Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:57 pm #252258 This is a pretty big job... props for doing it yourself

In addition to all of the tools mentioned in your manual, you'll want to be familiar with plasti-gauge. it's the poor man's version of the expensive micrometers that read to thousandths of an inch to figure out bearing sizes. Plasti-gauge is a common method so I'm sure there's plenty of info on google about it.
Should you decide to go with OEM bearings, Hondas are somewhat different in their bearing sizes.
They size them by color/number by using a chart.

Here's more details on that:

http://www.civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=21

Will you be pulling the motor out to do this work?
It's possible to do it with the motor in the car, working thru the bottom of the motor, but I prefer to have the motor out of the car instead of working on my back looking up.

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- Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:34 pm #252267

This is a pretty big job... props for doing it yourself

In addition to all of the tools mentioned in your manual, you'll want to be familiar with plasti-gauge. it's the poor man's version of the expensive micrometers that read to thousandths of an inch to figure out bearing sizes. Plasti-gauge is a common method so I'm sure there's plenty of info on google about it.
Should you decide to go with OEM bearings, Hondas are somewhat different in their bearing sizes.
They size them by color/number by using a chart.

Here's more details on that:

http://www.civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=21

Will you be pulling the motor out to do this work?
It's possible to do it with the motor in the car, working thru the bottom of the motor, but I prefer to have the motor out of the car instead of working on my back looking up.

I wish I could take the engine out of the car, but unfortunatelly I cant. So I will have to work from underneath the block. Thanks for the Information.