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How-To/DIY: ENGINE A Guide to Working On A B-Series Engine and Integra Engine Compartment

By Randolph Do of The How-To/DIY Honda Integra Blog @

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A Preface These eBooks are dedicated and made possible to my old 1996 Acura Integra LS sedan. We went through a lot, numerous of ups and downs, but you made me a better mechanic and helped me grow as a person, only strengthening my character and helping me find myself. I can only hope whoever owns you now is taking care of you. Your spirit lives on through these publications in eBooks and How-To/DIY tutorials on the website.

All the information presented in these eBooks were recorded these past several years & finally now being publicly published to help others. In due time, I will provide more thorough, easy-to-follow tutorials & eBooks. As of now, I hope you, the reader, learn something new & strive on diligently! Most the information illustrated and presented are of me simply following step-by-step instructions from my service maintenance manual. Some information is simply by my creativity and strive to achieve a modification. I have a lot more unpublished rich-information content so these eBooks will be updated later on with more detailed How-To/DIY tutorials. As of now, I hope you learn and enjoy the read throughout this and the other eBooks.

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I hope you, as the unique visitor, enjoy the tutorials, my photography and learn something new. I hope you revisit this site for more thorough tutorials, detailed images & different topics from different generation Integra models to the Honda CBR600RR motorcycle. Yep! I’m a rider too! My website and eBook publications gives me the opportunity to be a teacher and share my knowledge & passions through photography. It also gives me the opportunity to monetize my content through publication of eBooks & affiliate marketing. Giving me the chance to become a writer entrepreneur and a teacher in my own way. I am by no means a professional mechanic nor professional writer. I am simply following my passions because I know the rest will follow. So if you are wondering how I am able to provide these tutorials, just know I have always had a mindset of exploration and how things work. As a young lad, I played games a lot and always wondered how they work. My first How-To/DIY type project was opening up a console gaming controller and seeing all its circuitry and then putting it all back together. From there, I learned to build a computer on my own through the information provided online. After becoming bored with computers and gaming, I moved onto cars and fell in love with the Honda Integra Type R and the rest is history, shown through numerous of photo shoots, the How-To/DIY tutorials on my website and exclusive information only provided in these eBooks. This eBook will be the first of many so stay tuned to @ http://www.howtodiyintegra.com for an upcoming Kawasaki Ninja EX500, Honda CBR600RR and other Integra generation eBooks in the future! Because my joys in life are applicable in a way where I can transform them to monetizing resources for myself, I intend to share my experiences with a library of eBooks which I hope becomes valuable resources of information to all readers. I hope you the reader will keep this collection of eBooks and use them as a reference anytime you need help or images to help finish whatever project you plan to work on. As a provider in information, I hope you understand the content and information provided. I advise to have patience, go steady in work and careful at all times whenever doing any work. I want to stress safety as much as possible now and throughout the eBooks because I only hope success for you and continuance of living an awesome life! It is always crucial to have proper safety measures so please, take a promise now to ensure safety for yourself, your vehicle and others/things around. So if you are reading this, thank you. I am truly honored and blessed to be a helpful hand in any way or form possible. Because in the end, I am simply trying my best to help others and am living by a personal philosophy & universal law: the Will to Do Good. Thank you and I hope you have great present-time moments fulfilled with happiness, always.

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Table Of Contents

How-To/DIY: Engine Removal

How-To/DIY: Wire Tucking Engine Bay Side Harnesses for 3rd Gen. Integra


How-To/DIY – ENGINE

Wire Tucking Engine Bay Side Harnesses for ’94-’01 3rd Generation Honda Integra

Back in 2010 (or much earlier actually), the whole car scene was exploding with engine bays with neatly wire tucked builds where your eyes would be diverted to just seeing only the motor itself. No ugly OEM connectors, no more sight of the “smaller items” in the engine bay and a well-thought-out presentation of a clean, engine compartment was the craze and current movement. Seeing meticulously cleaned engine bays, I sought out to figure out how it was done but my research on it was futile with broken image links or poor guides on de-pinning.

So with a strong Do-It-Yourself-er mentality, I sought to do it myself & just tackle the project straight on. I normally work on projects with some kind of “book” to refer to but this topic/project is not necessarily taught and most times barely shared about, with others usually posting the final product than the journey of how the product came to be.

I will be sharing my experience, tips and troubles on a topic that deals with a lot of electrical wiring and how we can neatly “wire tuck” it away from plain sight every time we open our engine hood.

Also, keep in mind this case is special because my car had all its air conditioning parts removed so there’s a huge “empty space” underneath my dash. And so sorry because I did not record the process of removing the dashboard when handling the passenger side wire tucking process. Also the hood cable was relocated for anti-theft purposes.

I strongly recommend reading FIRST before attempting this How-To/DIY guide.

The tools I used for this project:

Step 1:

Remove the front bumper. Sorry I didn’t record this part but here’s a quick How-To/DIY on it: 1. Remove 9 bolts on top of the Front Bumper Upper Stiffener 2. Remove 2 bolts on the sides that mount onto the Fenders 3. Disconnect the plugs from the Turn Signal Lights 4. Remove 10 bolts from underneath the Front Bumper


Step 2:

Remove fender


This is the clutter we will be cleaning up by literally de-pinning one wire at a time through the rubber gasket that holds onto the chassis frame. By de-pinning one wire at a time is to avoid any confusion of which one wire goes into on the connector. This is definitely a time-consuming project but once you get the method down of de-pinning from the connector, it should be a steady progression towards a cleaner engine bay compartment.

PATIENCE IS KEY!


Step 3: De-loom & remove all old electrical tape & plastic looming covers off. Discard or reuse is up to you. I reused a small piece.

Step 4:

Remove the plastic back pieces, if any, on the connectors. Then use a small object to push a plastic tab back while gently tugging the wire pin outward from the connector. This process requires a good amount of your “touch” senses as you have to “feel” those plastic tabs release the wire pins out from the connectors.


Onto the bigger connectors which is a lot easier to de-pin but also a lot more time-consuming as it has more wires.

Step 5: Pry the white plastic coverings with a flat-head and pick out with a needle nose pliers. Be careful not to pry it with too much force as it can crack. Rearrange & space out all the wires as shown in the image below:


Here you can see how to de-pin a wire from these connectors:


Now that you have a general idea of how to de-pin, now begins the process of feeding one wire through the rubber gasket and re-pinning each wire back into the connector.

Step 6: De-pin one wire at a time, feed through the rubber gasket & re-pin back into the connector. After all pins are fed through, zip-tie harness.


Step 7: Repeat for the larger wire pins on these connectors.


Step 8: Tuck all connectors into the car’s cabin and all the other accessory connectors through the old hood cable hole.


All finished here, much cleaner look now in the engine by compartment.

Now that you have the engine harness connectors are out of the way, let’s focus on those other accessory plugs. Now I de-pinned everything all at once because my intention is to feed all the wiring behind the chassis’s metal frame, then loomed up & through the side of the frame.

All the plugs de-pinned of its connectors:

TIP: Take images of all the connectors to remember where each pin goes into each individual connector.


As a anti-theft security measure, I relocated my hood cable inside the engine bay when I first got the car so I was left with a hole in the chassis. When I did this wire tuck project, I fed all the wiring inside and thru that location.


Step 9:

Zip-tie the harness & re-loom the whole harness with electric tape or other type of looming material. Feed the harness by hooking with a thick copper wire (or metal coat hanger) through the chassis’s side frame. This part is tricky to explain but hopefully the images below illustrates what I mean.

Just imagine you locked your keys inside your car but fortunately have the windows cracked enough to drop a clothes hanger inside to “fish” it out. Same concept here.


Step 10: Reconnect all pins to connectors back on & mount ground box. If you got all that done, then congratulations! This specific part was difficult but not impossible. You can see here how the whole harness is now hidden, loomed with electric tape & to its original position to power its own accessory.


Now that you finished the Driver Side Wire Tuck, you can take a well deserved break before tackling the Passenger Side Wire Tuck…because it is a lot more messier & trickier to deal with due to ABS connectors, Evaporator box, engine fuse-box & connectors.

During this whole wire tucking project, my intention was to remove ABS for a 4040 Brake lines setup so I did not utilize the ABS connectors. No A/C neither & was already missing a Evaporator box so engine fuse-box was mounted inside the car’s cabin.

Step 11: Repeat the de-pinning process for the passenger side. This side has additional wires such as the engine fuse-box & ABS connectors which has a lot of dielectric grease.


This part makes this How-To/DIY guide tricky due to most people having air conditioning. The best option would be to feed all extra wires and ABS connectors. It will be quite time-consuming so just think about it before attempting.


Step 13: Tuck all the engine fuse-box connectors inside the car’s cabin.


Step 14: Mount the fuse-box & blower.

Well that’s it! I know the finished product isn’t the cleanest or organized in terms of presentation but this was my first attempt of wire tucking. I simply wanted to shed some light on this project & attempted to clean up my engine bay. The Driver Side Wire Tuck is definitely a good guide but the Passenger Side Wire Tuck, in my honest opinion, is not what I would like to see but worked fine for my goal of a slightly cleaned up engine bay.

Having the engine’s fuse-box inside the cabin is also a anti-theft security layer since it’s easy to remove one 15AMP fuse, cutting off the fuel to the

motor.


Thank You!

If you are reading this page, then from the bottom of my heart, thank you tenfold! I am glad you learned something new and hopefully enjoyed the content provided in this eBook. For more content and to read my other eBooks, then come check out my website @ http://www.howtodiyintegra.com.

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If you have any comments, tips or suggestions, then please feel free to contact me anytime @ [email protected]. I would honestly love to hear all, good or bad, comments because it can only strengthen and better my future writing, content and upcoming How-To/DIY tutorials and eBooks! Lastly, I just want to say thank you once more and am hoping happiness upon your life.

Strive on diligently. Enjoy Life . Be Happy.

Sincerely, Randolph Do

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