Good morning, afternoon, or evening everyone.

I had come to this forum to ask for your help. I own a 1992 Honda Accord DX automatic transmission, that had failed smog as of 7/9/20. The reason for it is High HO and CO emissions, and IwI everyone's input on what the reason for this may be. I have little knowledge about the mechanics of a car, and ask that you more experienced owners can help.

I want to start off by listing some problems and about my car, some maybe completely unrelated to others, but I hope they can help narrow the issue down a bit more.

1. The most obvious difference about my car is that, on stop signs or red lights, when my car takes off, the speed picks up really slow, as if it doesn't have power to keep the car running. I basically have to really step on the gas much harder than it really takes to get the car to run properly.
2. There are times when I start my car up, and the rpm shoots up to idle, sometimes it drops down and the car dies.
3. My car also eats alot of gas, too much gas. I can drive around the block twice, and gas drops quite significantly. When this carwcar my daily, I would use $20 every other day just to get myself to school and back.
4. This car was in pretty bad shape before I got it, since I got it for free from an uncle.. but it ran. However, I do not know what problems there were before this.
5. Also, when this was my daily, I was constantly replacing hoses cause of frequent coolant leaks.
6. I had replaced the distributor on this car, spark plugs, battery, radiator, and water pump.

Through some research, I've landed on the main issue being due to the EGR valve, but like I said, I am no expert, probably not even an amateur, but I would love to hear from you more experienced owners and mechanics. I appreciate it.

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Welcome to the forums.
That said, it almost sounds like you have a clogged cat converter. But, look for any codes first. Since you have OBDI, you can use a paper clip to get them. The "service connector" should be under the glove box door. Then the check engine light will flash giving you the codes you need/have stored (count the number of flashes to find out what codes you have present).
I hope this helps.

 

Here's instructions how to read those codes...
https://www.hondaaccordforum.com/for...l-codes-35962/

I'm going to move this over to General Tech. The "new member" area is mostly for welcome & introductions, so you'll get more people looking at your questions over in Gen.Tech. I'm guessing that the list of issues might turn into a nice long thread of questions & answers...

 

What was happening to the coolant hoses that repeatedly caused them to leak?

 

Thank you kindly. I appreciate it.
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I'm guessing just due to old age, and worn hoses. They're practically all pretty squishy. haha.

 

I might have misunderstood your post. Did you only replace old hoses, or did you have to replace the new hoses due to leaks?

What the the coolant temperature doing when the idle goes crazy? Do you have to constantly add coolant?

 

Hello,

sorry about that, totally my fault, but yes, old hoses.

and before, there were many times when the car overheats, and the temperature gauge flies above the H. and yes, I did have to add coolant constantly.. now, there's are not much problems.

 

You may have warped the cylinder head by overheating and blown the headgasket. When the engine is cold, remove the radiator cap and start the engine. Do you have gas bubbles coming out of the raditor?

 

So are you saying replacing the old hoses took care of the having to constantly top up the coolant level?