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Two blocks of 9"x2" under the front edge of my ramps solves this problem nicely. Far easier than all the effort of jacking the thing up too.

From experience, a 225 tyre sits really nicely on an 8" rim. Sits square at the shoulder, and the rim protectors still do their job on certain brands of tyre too.

The standard wheel will be a 7" rim. My car has a 8.5" et42's up front without an arch roll. That's the absolute limit before you start needing to roll and stretch the arches, cut off arch liner clips etc. As to the rear, I can't comment as mine's a tourer, so has more space out back due to...

It will come out in one lump with the engine high and the gearbox low. (Probably about a 30 degree angle) A balance bar on the motor makes life so much easier. You'll need all the auxiliaries off the front (I removed the inlet manifold too - for cleaning), the radiator out of the way (the...

Same as mine Jon. Clunky when the car's off. Smooth and silent when it's running.

Drive it up onto a pair of car ramps and slide yourself under the car. Acres of space from the bottom up. You can see easily and get your arm up there with loads of room to spare.

Cool. I'll have a go at some point. The car's only partly reassembled on the drive after an exhaust manifold replacement, so.i doubt it'll be on the road again till the weekend anyway.

Post up the method, and I'll give it a go in my diesel wagon with its big boots for comparison when I get the opportunity.

This is one of big problems with the way the correction factors for each individual car are derived for use in the calculation of the economy cycles on the dyno. In the real world they're skewing the result one way by generating extra drag, so that a greater correction factor can be used, yet...

Since I've had my accord, I've tried different sized tyres (225/17 and 225&245/19) and tested different pressures and they made sod-all difference to the economy over the same journey at the same speed, and that was the difference between 225's and 245's out the back too. All the things that I...

Manifold https://imgur.com/gallery/DR0yl

Yeah, removed the heat shield earlier and it's gone on no. 1

Guess who's diesel's just cracked a manifold? Going to have a crack at an eBay pattern jobbie and do a DIY for on here. No chance of Honda fishing me out of trouble on this one. My car has a 2011 civic motor in it. Seems the late manifolds were no better off than the early ones. Approx 118k on...

Steam trains are lovely things though. As are some petrol cars. I'll look back at my diesel car like I look at an old hammer. Just another tool for a job, but the most appropriate one for banging in that nail at that time. Dropped a hammer down the wall cavity of my house when I built our...

Being a pre-facelift car, it'd have the old type tensioners that were all superseded, hence me asking in my original reply. You can easily get to the inspection cover for the timing chain tensioner just by removing the o/s front wheel. N22a2 https://imgur.com/gallery/UsiCP However getting to...

It has two separate chains. It's actually the shorter pump / balance shaft chain that's the one that gives the trouble. Sounds like loads of chain slap though, so maybe a tensioner's failed?

Sounds a lot like a chain to me. Did they change both timing and pump chains, and replace the tensioners with the new hydraulic type?

30 to infinity!!!! (All in 4th)

Fortunately my diesel runs on the tears of environmentalists. Fuel's never been so abundant.

I hate pop music so much. Currently cranking out Pearl Jam on the stereo.