As related to my post in the Civic forum,

how do i check the vacuum system? I have read that it can be a cause of a lean running condition.

thanks for the help!

heres a link to my other thread, if you wanna help me there :thumbup:

https://www.honda-acura.net/forums/s...hreadid=118724

 

The vacuum system? Just buy a can of carb cleaner, have the engine held around 2500 RPM, and spray the hoses, intake manifold gasket and throttle body gasket a little at a time, listening for a change in RPM [~500 RPM]either up or down very suddenly.

 

sounds messy

 

The carb cleaner evaporates pretty quickly. You'll actually be cleaning the lines as you spray them also

 

carb cleaner is extremely corrosive, iirc. will there be any damage to the hoes?

 

The spray not the dip kind of carb cleaner.

The spray [aerosol can] is rubber and plastic safe, made to clean carbs still mounted on the engine. The dip will turn rubber into a mushy pile of tar.

 

cool, thanks a lot man. I'll give it a try. How do i know which lines to spray?

 

Spray all of them, you're trying to find leaks, if you don't know which are leaking, then you don't know which to spray, do you?

 

be careful though....i used to work at uhaul and ive seen 3 trucks go up in flames. but they use kinda a slow evap cleaner.