Honda Tech and Ridge owner here to help.

[HondaTech]

The A/C compressor as well as the alternator are turned off and allowed to freewheel during WOT acceleration. Less engine load = more power.


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[MikeT]

Originally Posted by HondaTech

The A/C compressor as well as the alternator are turned off and allowed to freewheel during WOT acceleration. Less engine load = more power.


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Some Fords do the same (At least the F-250, F-150, that I used to drive. Oh yeah, my friemds Mustang GT did as well).

[Bigjer]

I put my car into the shop on monday at 8am. They told me it would be a 3hr job... Well I did not get my truck back til 4pm and this is what the work order said....

Tech has checked in this concern and found we were advised to check the valve clearance. remove the front valve cover and checked the #4 & #5 cyl exhaust valves and the #4 vlave exhaust spring retainer was crushed and therfore the keeper was not seated properly.. Needed to remove the valve spring and keeper and replace them. Brought back to factory specs and recheck. Completed and retested... Techline Refernce #2611195


My question is... How did I crush the retainer in 1 day? Either way it sounds fine now....

[rdharper]

Originally Posted by Bigjer

I put my car into the shop on monday at 8am. They told me it would be a 3hr job... Well I did not get my truck back til 4pm and this is what the work order said....

Tech has checked in this concern and found we were advised to check the valve clearance. remove the front valve cover and checked the #4 & #5 cyl exhaust valves and the #4 vlave exhaust spring retainer was crushed and therfore the keeper was not seated properly.. Needed to remove the valve spring and keeper and replace them. Brought back to factory specs and recheck. Completed and retested... Techline Refernce #2611195


My question is... How did I crush the retainer in 1 day? Either way it sounds fine now....

Personally I'd view this as good news, in the sense that its unlikely that you will have a related problem... and... if you do, you can reference the early failure... which they are likely to take as a valid argument on the off-chance something in the valve train fails at some later point... or anything in the engine for that matter.

As to why it took longer? 3 hours is too little time to do that job (imo), so they did end up doing more than they expected.

The technline reference is not a TSB... maybe nothing more than a how-to.

As to what I might do (personally), make sure they put back in break-in oil, as this is what Honda advises should be there during break-in. They may not have access to it... without special order, so I'd make a point of this to them.

I'm a bit on the lazy side sometimes... but the really "right way", is to get an oil analysis done somewhere about 1k miles from now.. this will tell you if metal got put in suspension, and that they got the right oil in there. And that there is nothing else going on. Bob-the-Oil guy is a good place to read up on the value of this, and how to do it. (this is just my opinion of course)

Keep us posted... and thanks for posting your experience.

[shovelhd]

Looks like you dodged a major bullet.

[chrisftw]

Originally Posted by rdharper

Your Sport Trac, according to CR, has climate control problems. None on the Ridgeline. You also have, statistically speaking, transmission problems, both major and minor.

Customer satisfaction is highest on the Ridgeline, poor on the Sport Trac.

Why would you own two vehicles of the same class?

I doubt you own a Ridgeline. I would encourage you to put a breath-analysis meter on your Sport Trac... for your own protection. Assuming you own a Sport Trac.

i do infact own a ridgeline and a sport trac.
both me and my father share them..
and we have two of the same class well because we arent that fond of cars, were more into trucks..

but what im saying is that on my Ridgeline, when i floor it, even if its only once, the vents blow hot air at me and the cabin gets really hot, i dont have my dial switched to the red, nor do i have it even blowing air.
hot air just seems to come through the vents after i floor it

and im just stating that my sport trac never has any problems like that, and i run it hard.

[shovelhd]

Which model do you have, chrisftw?

[MikeT]

Originally Posted by chrisftw

i do infact own a ridgeline and a sport trac.
both me and my father share them..
and we have two of the same class well because we arent that fond of cars, were more into trucks..

but what im saying is that on my Ridgeline, when i floor it, even if its only once, the vents blow hot air at me and the cabin gets really hot, i dont have my dial switched to the red, nor do i have it even blowing air.
hot air just seems to come through the vents after i floor it

and im just stating that my sport trac never has any problems like that, and i run it hard.

Hello, the ONLY reason the AC will blow warm / hot air (Assuming all else is stock and functioning normally) is under full throttle accelleration (WOT or Wide Open Throttle), the AC compressor and Alternator free wheel allowing all of the engines power to be used for accelleration. I live in Texas and I too sometime resort to WOT and my cabin has never gotten hot. I have felt the temperature of the air from the vents change and get warmer, but only during the WOT event. After I back off the throttle, the air from the vents returns to ice cold. Out of curiosity, do you have the recirculate button activated?

[carolbmt]

I have an '08 RTX and just purchased the 6-disc changer & factory oem subwoofer from another ROC member. I've searched and can't figure this out: Is there a special wire harness that goes from the head unit to the subwoofer, or is it regular speaker wire?

Thank you!

[HondaTech]

It is not just regular speaker wire. It is the typical OEM stuff - a harness with plastic connectors. I am not sure of the RTX has the harness built in or if you will have to retrofit something.


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