Thanks Elle. Yours must be a DX or LX? Mine is a Std HB, and the glove
compartment label is for 165/70R13, and always have had 165's in mine.
Regards.

Elle wrote:

> AH,
>
> The sticker inside my 91 Civic's glove compartment specifies
> the 175's. What's your source for the 165's?
>
> My doggone Civic better last another 100k miles after the
> guzillion hours of labor I put into control arm bushings not
> long ago.
>
> I had the breather chamber off a few years ago and thought I
> replaced the O-ring then, but maybe not. That's a good idea
> for older cars. The slowness of the oil accumulating at the
> bottom of my oil drain plug suggests a very slow leak. Could
> be a poor fitting drain plug (it's metric but aftermarket)
> or somewhat stripped oil pan threads. I also suspect the
> distributor housing O-ring (or seal near it) is leaking a
> wee bit, though it's only three years old.
>
> JT (a.k.a Grumpy): Perfect. I wasn't sure about the rate of
> wear of front vs. back. Earlier I returned my fairly new, 5k
> mile old tire to the front and the worn one to the rear. No
> significant steering wander now. I did not want to spend $50
> on a new tire, anyway.
>
> Thanks for the input, AH and JT.
>
> <ah1244@wayne.edu> wrote
> > Hi Elle: After seeing your post, I looked up the Viva 2
> > tires at
> > Walmart and they are listed as 175/70R13, not 165/70R13 as
> > specified
> > for the 91 Civic. If you find the 165's at Walmart, please
> > drop a line.
> > I am looking for a new set of tires for my own 91 Civic,
> > but the 165's
> > are now very hard to come by (Yokohama still makes them,
> > but every
> > service place I have checked lists them as on backorder).
> >
> > By the way, as Grumpy notes, your Civic should last
> > another 100K miles
> > easily. I am planning to get mine beyond 250K
> > one-way-or-the-other.
> > Your infrequent oil leak may be from the breather chamber
> > grommets.....if so, replace the O ring and the grommet
> > that connects it
> > to the PCV, and you should be good to go.
> > Regards.
> >
> > Elle wrote:
> >> Any sage advice on whether to replace the other tires or
> >> how
> >> to rotate them at this point?
> >>
> >> Background:
> >> 1991 Civic, 179k miles. One of my (then) front tires
> >> displayed inboard wear about 7500 miles ago. Back then I
> >> rotated it to the rear, did some suspension work, and
> >> think
> >> I found the main cause of the wear (severely worn
> >> stabilizer
> >> link and associated bushings). So the wear is not
> >> continuing
> >> (knock on wood).
> >>
> >> Yesterday I rotated the worn tire back, from rear to
> >> front.
> >> Subsequently I noticed steering wander towards the wear
> >> side
> >> of the tire. I switched my two front tires, and sure
> >> enough,
> >> the wander switched.
> >>
> >> Two of my other tires have 30k miles on them. The third
> >> has
> >> 5k miles on it (got a serious flat a few months ago).
> >> None
> >> of these three tires are so showing irregular wear; just
> >> what looks usual for 30k miles, and certainly not down to
> >> the wear bars.
> >>
> >> I am going to buy at least one new tire this week and
> >> change
> >> out the badly worn one. The tires are Wal-Mart Viva 2,
> >> size
> >> as recommended by Honda. Very inexpensive, consistent
> >> with
> >> my expectation that the car may not last more than five
> >> years more.
> >>
> >> I certainly do not plan on losing any sleep over this. My
> >> Civic drives great otherwise, averaging around 42 mpg for
> >> the last five fillups. Little oily down below, but not
> >> enough to cause garage floor spotting.
> >>
> >> I have been holding off on the alignment (mentioned some
> >> weeks ago) because of this, for good or bad.
> >