'84 Honda CRX 1500

General information

• Engine: 1500 cc 8 - valve head, carburetted
  
• trans: 5 speed Manual
  
• Mileage: ~145K indicated; actual mileage unknown
  
• Color: "Baltic Blue"; this is the common color Honda used for these first CRX's
  
• Interior: Blue w/black carpet

Good things about the car

• Clutch new as of July 1998
• CV Joints new as of July 1998
• Timing belt, waterpump new as of ~October 1997; these have ~4000 miles on them but a service interval of 60,000 miles
• Alternator replaced November 1998
• Gas tank replaced July 1998
• Driverside rear brakeline replaced July 1998
  
• Tires fair
  
• Steering slop 0^o
  
• Exhaust system good
  
• Starts and runs well, smoothly making lots of power, and delivering a consistant 35 MPG
  
• Drives straight and true, corners like it's on rails ... These first CRXes are the lightest and most nimble of them all
  
• Baremetal interior pressurewashed and carpet replaced August 1998
  

Bad things About the Car

• When I got it this thing was somewhat rusted out, among its other problems. I have patched it up to good physical standards; it stays dry inside. This is done by means of shipbuilding epoxy, beer cans, polyester resin (Bondo), and polysulfide caulk
  
• Theres a piece of trim in the rear with two rustholes it it; I have bondoed them but not yet gotten around to fairing and painting
  
• A peice of plastisham bodywork between the headlights is broken and currently held on by means of stitchwork using 4mm kernmantle cord
  
• The car has evidently been in some kind of front end wreck, disabling the headlight - aiming mechanism . . . but the thing is so low anyway that it works fine to just run high beams all the time
  
• The steel brackets that hold on a huge plastisham lower body element, the one that wraps around the rear of the car, are rusted to oblivion. So that bodywork is held on to the car by means of a several pieces of driftwood 2x6 lumber and some bolts and drywall screws. It is probably more solid than the stock arrangement
  
• The upholstery of the seats is failing; otherwise the interior is in reasonable condition
  
• The breakline to the driverside rear brake needs to be connected to the rest of the system, and the system bled and flushed. The car currently only has 3 brakes functioning, but I have been driving it like that for more than a year . . .clockwise torque about a vertical axis is much less than you'd think under hard breaking.
  
• Worst of all: The grease retaining boots on the lower arm ball joints are broken. You might have to replace the lower arms with junkyard ones to address this. The male part of the lower arm is so attacked by the elements that I cannot separate the joints without a pickle-fork, hence the broken boots. My nonrusted Civic does not share this Achilles heel.

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