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2000 Honda Insight – Driving impressions after fixing most things
By Red / in Garage, All / June 28, 2008So spent the day tooling around in the Insight. Mostly errands. Noticed a couple of things Still getting the P0420 error, but its intermittent. Something the ECU will fail the cat, other times it d...
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2000 Honda Insight – Replacing shocks and struts
By Red / in Garage, All / June 27, 2008No pictures this time around. Was feeling lazy and its pretty obvious what has to be removed anyway. So to remove the back shocks 1) Jack up the rear end, can do one side or both, doesn't really...
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2000 Honda Insight – Cleaning the PCV valve
By Red / in Garage, All / June 9, 2008So while I had stuff apart I mentioned that I needed a new PCV valve. I couldn't find a new one locally and didn't want to order one from the stealer so figured I just fix mine. The PCV valve is a one...
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2000 Honda Insight – Clutch Replacement
By Red / in Garage, All / June 9, 2008First let me say I've never done a clutch on a FWD prior to this. I have done a clutch on the Jeep, so I did go into this with a basic idea of whats what. That said only attempt this if you have the m...
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Reviving a 2000 Honda Insight – Transfers, Registrations, and Syncros
By Red / in Garage, All / June 2, 2008Been a while since I last posted some updates. Took a week off after finals and have been enjoying the fine taste of not doing anything. Anyways, I was finally able to go down to the DMV to get sta...
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Reviving a 2000 Honda Insight – “Factory” tires
By Red / in Garage, All / May 3, 2008Tire pictures. Wasn't able to get them mounted as planned on Friday. A calculus test I have on Tuesday kinda screwed up my weekend. Been debating about DIY mounting them using BBs to dynamically balan...
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Honda Insight – Replacing front brakes
By Red / in Garage, All / April 27, 2008Front Brake Job - As a heads up its your standard disk brake job. Nothing special. I was debating about putting this up, but it seems like the general consensus is that vehicles with a regen braking s...
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Honda Insight – Suspension shots
By Red / in Garage, All / April 20, 2008Since I had the front wheel off I took some pictures of the front suspension and the front brakes. I'll let you guess what my next project is going to end up being The backs in excellent co...
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Honda Insight – Replacing the clutch slave and master
By Red / in Garage, All / April 20, 2008It sounds harder and more intimidating then it looks. If you can replace a brake caliper you can do this easy. You need the following 10mm Flare wrench 12mm Socket 10mm Socket 9"s or so of exten...
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Reviving a 2000 Honda Insight – Origin
By Red / in Garage, All / March 4, 2008In Jan of 08 I found a 2000 Honda Insight in a junk yard. For a total of $2000 bucks I brought my new "beater" home in hopes of getting it back up and running to replace my current DD. Driving my Heep...
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