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2000 Honda Insight – Conclusion
By Red / in Garage, All / February 24, 2012All good things must end. In this case I needed to pay for school and I wasn't drive too much anymore, so the Insight moved on. The new owner is a nice gentleman from Sausalito who'd been looking for ...
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2000 Honda Insight – Found a transmission!
By Red / in Garage, All / July 25, 2011Got lucky last week. Found a dude out in Hayward with a trans from an 06 with less than 20k on it. Swapped in in this weekend and shifts like a dream now. In comparison, my old box was trashed; noisy ...
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2000 Honda Insight – 3 to 2 Cylinders and running fine
By Red / in Garage, All / July 7, 2011Slightly random update, the Insight is capable of propelling itself on flat ground fairly well with only 2 cylinders and no IMA. It can also climb moderate hills. Found this out while I was trying ...
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2000 Honda Insight – Maiden Voyage
By Red / in Garage, All / July 23, 2008Been a while since I've updated this thread so...... My 2nd gear syncro is gone. Tried Syncromesh FM, Redline MTL, Honda MTF, and with a few different gear oil/MTF tonics and end result was squat. ...
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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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