Honda Car Forum

"Tibur Waltson" <Toush@hi.com> wrote

> What if there's no time to run the A/C or motor for 10-15
> minutes? I run the motor at midnight and feel unsafe to sit in a
> car. The local laws requires that an unregistered or uninsured
> car cannot operate on public roads. The laws also require that a
> vehicle must move once every few days and be free of dirt. I
> finally had it registered, but still no liability insurance. What if I
> operate the AC once a month for 15 minutes and just start the
> car for a minute, just to move the car a few feet from its original
> spot?

It still isn't good for the engine and exhaust to only run the car for one
minute all the time.

What kind of area has these laws? If it's private property, who cares if you
don't move it every couple days? Who keeps track? Depending on the terrain,
you could shift it into neutral without running the engine and push it a
couple feet. Then once a month run it up for 15 minutes. Why do you feel
unsafe in your car?

<BigJohnson@mailcity.com> wrote in message
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> I have several collector vehicles, as old as a 1941.

And I'm going up on the next space shuttle.

>I learned
> from other collector over the years. I take each one out on the
> road every month. If the weather doesn't permit me to do that, I
> run them, with one drive wheel off the floor, for at least twenty
> minutes. That seems to be enough time to return the start
> voltage to the battery and keep all of the seals and mechanical
> stuff lubed. I also run all of the switches through the
> functions, as well. That regimen has served my cars well over
> for fifty years.
>
>
> mike hunt, your village idiot.

LOL! So tell us Mikey...what refrigerant does the '41 use in its a/c system?


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I'd feel better with the whole rear end (or front, as the case may be)
jacked up, in a vehicle with a limited slip that is mandatory anyway.
Your advice is basically good but I'd probably skip the
running-on-jackstands as at least in the case of my '62 Stude, if you
start it up and let it idle it will never actually warm up, apparently
the bypass in the water pump housing is big enough to allow enough
coolant flow that the temp gauge never gets off the peg unless you
actually drive it, if you do drive it it will warm up in 5-10 minutes.

nate

BigJohnson@mailcity.com wrote in message news:<4016CE60.631710FB@mailcity.com>...
> I have several collector vehicles, as old as a 1941. I learned
> from other collector over the years. I take each one out on the
> road every month. If the weather doesn't permit me to do that, I
> run them, with one drive wheel off the floor, for at least twenty
> minutes. That seems to be enough time to return the start
> voltage to the battery and keep all of the seals and mechanical
> stuff lubed. I also run all of the switches through the
> functions, as well. That regimen has served my cars well over
> for fifty years.
>
>
> mike hunt
>
>
>
> Tibur Waltson wrote:
> >
> > My Honda user manual says to operate the AC once a week but
> > doesn't say how long. The car is in storage and every week I go
> > start the car and operate the AC for half a minute and shut it off.
> >
> > Sometime it's so cold outside that the AC will not turn on. I'm unsure
> > if it's empty of freon or it's just too cold outside, 20-degree F. How
> > long should we start a car and operate the A/C in order to meet the
> > factory requirements?
> >
> > TIA, `93 Honda Accord lx

Seems like you could run it at a fast idle for 15 minutes and it should warm
up.


"Nate Nagel" <njnagel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4b6d2dd6.0401290549.2f9e3bb4@posting.google.c om...
> I'd feel better with the whole rear end (or front, as the case may be)
> jacked up, in a vehicle with a limited slip that is mandatory anyway.
> Your advice is basically good but I'd probably skip the
> running-on-jackstands as at least in the case of my '62 Stude, if you
> start it up and let it idle it will never actually warm up, apparently
> the bypass in the water pump housing is big enough to allow enough
> coolant flow that the temp gauge never gets off the peg unless you
> actually drive it, if you do drive it it will warm up in 5-10 minutes.
>
> nate
>
> BigJohnson@mailcity.com wrote in message
news:<4016CE60.631710FB@mailcity.com>...
> > I have several collector vehicles, as old as a 1941. I learned
> > from other collector over the years. I take each one out on the
> > road every month. If the weather doesn't permit me to do that, I
> > run them, with one drive wheel off the floor, for at least twenty
> > minutes. That seems to be enough time to return the start
> > voltage to the battery and keep all of the seals and mechanical
> > stuff lubed. I also run all of the switches through the
> > functions, as well. That regimen has served my cars well over
> > for fifty years.
> >
> >
> > mike hunt
> >
> >
> >
> > Tibur Waltson wrote:
> > >
> > > My Honda user manual says to operate the AC once a week but
> > > doesn't say how long. The car is in storage and every week I go
> > > start the car and operate the AC for half a minute and shut it off.
> > >
> > > Sometime it's so cold outside that the AC will not turn on. I'm unsure
> > > if it's empty of freon or it's just too cold outside, 20-degree F. How
> > > long should we start a car and operate the A/C in order to meet the
> > > factory requirements?
> > >
> > > TIA, `93 Honda Accord lx

>"Bill 2" <asdf@asdf.com> wrote in message >
>> "Tibur Waltson" <Toush@hi.com> wrote
>
>> What if I operate the AC once a month for 15 minutes and just start the
> > car for a minute, just to move the car a few feet from its original
> > spot?
>
> It still isn't good for the engine and exhaust ...
>once a month run it up for 15 minutes.

I will begin pushing car 1 down the to the street from my
incline driveway. I will push car 2 up. Pushing it up is difficult.

> What kind of area has these laws?

Residential California (Northern). Everybody's seems to be moving to
anyplace other than Calif. My relatives are gone. This state is getting
more strict by the minute.

>If it's private property, who cares if you
> don't move it every couple days? Who keeps track?

Even in private property they require cars to be neat. No FOR-SALE
signs. No repairs. No parking in dirt, lawn. No driving in lawns.
No cobwebs. The city police pass by three times a week and
city inspectors come randomly. I like the idea, see why below.

>Why do you feel unsafe in your car?

People had been robbed of there leg. A few yard from where I am
typing this, young African-American men want money from a truck
driver. The truck driver refuse by saying, "I work hard for my
money," and they shot his leg... Doctors amputated his leg.

My father gets carjack by drug dealers on the street. No, he did NOT
buy drugs. They drag him a few feet when his leg didn't separate
from the seat belt. He escape with several black eye and we recover
his car several miles away and we stitch his trousers. The car had a
homemade timed kill switch. I had to make a switch,
it's the only car gets us to work.

California is not your place to be in, and if you are, DON"T STARE
at ANYBODY. If you do, you might end up in the hospital with a
few cheap bullets inside your back. We're immigrants and we can
take anything here, but it's really a sad situation with no real practical
solution, other than STRICT appearance regulations, even these
don't help.

One other thing, at New Years Eve, we set up sand bags and trenches.
Neighbors set up machine guns and OOZIES for joy shooting, it's worse
than war. One dude dragged out a makeshift CANON, for goodness
sake. I'm interested in hearing some solutions.

Tibur

"Tibur Waltson" <Toush@hi.com> wrote in message
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> One other thing, at New Years Eve, we set up sand bags and trenches.
> Neighbors set up machine guns and OOZIES for joy shooting, it's worse
> than war. One dude dragged out a makeshift CANON, for goodness
> sake. I'm interested in hearing some solutions.
I'd quit worrying about your a/c and start worrying about some other things.

Roughly 1/30/04 03:49, Tibur Waltson's monkeys randomly typed:


>> What kind of area has these laws?
>
> Residential California (Northern).

> Even in private property they require cars to be neat. No FOR-SALE
> signs. No repairs. No parking in dirt, lawn. No driving in lawns.
> No cobwebs. The city police pass by three times a week and
> city inspectors come randomly. I like the idea, see why below.

Yup, purely local ordnance, not a DMV or state law issue.

> I'm interested in hearing some solutions.

Moving? Sell the unused car to pay for the move?


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I think the manual for my '88 Accord says to run it 10 min. once a week.
When it is cold it won't run because you would end up sending liquid through
the compressor and cracking the compressors head - HVAC fact. Once the car
has warmed up completely it might get warm enough under the hood for you to
get the compressor to turn on. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't
think anyone is following the advice in the manual to the letter. Running
it one in a while should be fine. Don't be scared if you can't get it to
run in all winter. It will probably be fine.


"Tibur Waltson" <Toush@hi.com> wrote in message
news:5f8fa2d7e906ce266257a00849c6492c@news.bubbane ws.com...
> My Honda user manual says to operate the AC once a week but
> doesn't say how long. The car is in storage and every week I go
> start the car and operate the AC for half a minute and shut it off.
>
> Sometime it's so cold outside that the AC will not turn on. I'm unsure
> if it's empty of freon or it's just too cold outside, 20-degree F. How
> long should we start a car and operate the A/C in order to meet the
> factory requirements?
>
> TIA, `93 Honda Accord lx
>
>
>