Sorry it has been so long since I made any further comments on my 91 Integra but the garage still has it which in one way is good and another, not so.
I took it back in early morning on the 31st of August. They said they would put somebody on it right away. The shop is really slow right now (go figure) so they only had one mechanic working. Anyway to try and show them trust, faith and all I waited until Thursday of the following week before checking on it. Ok, so I go in and the person working the counter says they had worked on it and found the timing belt was off a tooth and they had fixed and had found one tappet making noise (ewww) fixed that but that they were waiting for a thermal control for the fans (the freaken fans again) which right then told we they had the damned car again for almost an entire week and probably had done little or nothing. Sounds to me like they sat on it figuring that once they got the fan control everything was going to be fine.
I told this person when I took the car back in that the car ran really (fairly well) when it was first started in the morning but became rapidly worse as it warmed up, which it did (warmed up) pretty darn fast. Once it gets fully warm it becomes REALLY poor in response, very throaty full throttle, will hardly pull the car from a standstill.
In any case, they told me that once the fan controller came in they would install it and drive it thinking everything would then be ok. I tried to explain to them the car ran fine before they did their rebuild with the damn fans being the way they were, what made them think they were going to make any difference now...? They went on to tell me how these fans NEED to start up at 210 degrees in order the keep the temp down. I again tried to explain to them had this been the case why then would the car run over temp but then while idling, the temp would then drop.
They simply do not hear.
Now, with my faith mostly gone cause they are so hung up over that fan control they are never going to find the problem.
Oh well, funny thing, I never did hear from them on Friday the 7th so either they didn't get the fan control or if they did, they found it didn't fix anything. We will see what we will see..
