My Honda Passport is pinging...

My wife and I have had a 2001 Honda Passport for the last couple of years. Has been a good car. But there is an awful pinging (pre-ignition) noise between 2000 and 3000 rpm. After some research, I have found that there is a common problem with that engine.

Here is a post from a site that I found.

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My engine is knocking and ping’ing what can I do?

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=178212

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=153083&highlight=ion

If you have a 2000-2004 Isuzu, make sure you only use Denso K16PR-P11 spark plugs. Check the link below to buy them for 6.80/plug (note the dealer charges about 17/plug)

http://www.sparkplugs.com/results_app.asp?AAIA=1363272&mfid=3

The 2000-2004 engines have the GM/delphi "ion sensing" ignition system where the spark plugs are used as a sensor (when they are not firing) to measure the electrical resistance of the gasses in the combustion chamber. Other plugs may cause the ECU to register a code (misfire code: P1340). Also, it has been noted that some 00 trucks came with champion plugs from the factory, which cause knocking, due to to ion sense coils.

If you have 1998-1999, the suggested plugs are NGK or Denso or Champion double platinum plugs.

A dirty EGR port may cause knocking. Knocking also, may be caused by carbon build-up in the combustion chamber. Adding one 20oz bottle of Chevron Techron Concentrate® every 3k, will help to keep the combustion chamber and fuel injectors clean. Also Sea Foam is another excellent product to use (it can be added to the gas and the oil).

Finally keep that PCV valve clean! Either replace it once a year, or pull it every 6 months or so and spray it out with some carb cleaner.

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Of course this is for isuzu rodeos, but if you don't already know Honda Passports are the same SUV, just with different name plates.

I have not solved my problem quite yet... My Passport already has Denso plugs, so I will put new ones in, and I might try to get the newest ECU configuration from the dealer, which was a recommendation from one of the automotiveforum threads.

Will post an update as soon as I fix my problem.

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Tag Cloud of Presidents Addresses

Contained in the following webpage is a Tag Cloud that has been created from all presidents state of the union addresses.

Use the slider above the cloud to go back in time.

Go to Site.

http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/

Interesting thoughts:

War and the enemy always a common theme.
Surprisingly enough Bill Clinton uses the word Family (or variations) the most.

Learning New Stuff, or Polishing Skills: iTuneU.

Now on iTunes there is a thing called iTunes U.

They are now offering free college and other courses, Professor Lectures and interviews.

I found some very interesting culinary arts interviews, from Univ of So. Florida. But I am also checking out a English Class and a Philosophy Class.

I have also seen College Algebra and Trig.

-Geoff
Learn more >> Link to Apple Site.

Learned something New.
- When put in charge of the admin responsibilities of a linux RedHat 2.1AS server, there are somethings that I have learned.

There are some logs in /var/log that can get very big and use up substantial disk space.

Yesterday my sendmail was giving me a error of insufficient disk space. unable to send. unable to save. with a few other errors. So, I googled, and learned that the df command is very handy. It showed me that in the filesystem mounted on /var was 100% used up. So I started there. I looked through the entire /var dir looking to what was going on. The maillog and the secure files were huge. Hadn’t been looked at since we the server was started in 2005. I also found in /var/mail each user that had mail also hadn’t been cleared for a while. root’s mail had thousands of emails, spanning back from 2005.

After a few hours and reviewing and clearing several hundred megabytes up, the sendmail resumed it’s proper operation.

Thanks to:
http://forevergeek.com/linux/check_disk_space_in_linux.php

The developers and hosts for:
WinSCP :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows

Learning Object Oriented Programming

The majority of my programming experience is from PICK/BASIC on jBase running on a Redhat Linux Server.

The more I do in Pick/Basic the more I become interested in learning new lauguages and branching out to other platforms. In my attempts to branch out and learn new languages I have found interest in mostly Ruby on Rails. But they are different than what I am used to seeing, and they seemed to have a common theme. I have since learned that Ruby is a Object Oriented Language.

I have found this wikipedia page very helpful in explaining Object Oriented Programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_oriented

... to be continued.

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