By Jonathan Bailey on Thursday, July 08, 1999 - 02:19 pm:

I'm not sure about you but even thought they have
the Use of English section or as I call it "The
English to English dictionary" it can be very
difficult to under stand what is going on. So I
think that this would be a good place to reflect
on this language difference!
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By John S. (208.30.162.64 - 208.30.162.64) on Thursday, July 08, 1999 - 09:51 pm:

Bonnet is Hood

By Todd on Friday, July 09, 1999 - 07:17 pm:

Boot is trunk; big ends refer to main bearing journals on the crank; small ends refer to rod journals on the crank; spanner is wrench. Any that I missed? Hey JB, if you have trouble with particular words, post them here and we all will try to translate.

By (Civicguru) on Saturday, July 10, 1999 - 07:15 am:

Not quite..."big ends" refer to the rod journals on the crank, "little ends" are the other end of the conrod (piston end). Big end of conrod, little end of conrod :). "main bearings" are the crank main journal bearings.

By John S. ( - 204.120.50.60) on Tuesday, March 07, 2000 - 09:53 pm:

Heads up...
First come first served...
eBay...under "auto parts"...page 11...one each for sale...Haynes 1200 Civic manual...Haynes 1500CVCC manual...BID OVER 3-8-8amPST
I have them both already...so go get them...

By chris on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:46 am:

I've just converted my '75 1200 EB1 from a 4-speed to a 5-speed from an '82 civic EN. The gearbox has a GN sticker on it. Everything lines up and bolts straight on but now the clutch is riding. It won't release itself fully even when the cable is slack. Also the pedal engaging point is very high up. It goes fine but when you give it throttle quickly it just slips/rides the clutch.
I've pulled it apart and done some comparisons with the old 4-speed and found the spindle that the thrust bearing moves on is about 10mm longer on the 5-speed but I don't know if this matters or not.
Also I have 2 pressure plates, one is stamped 6e and the other 4o. Both fit and are standard but I would like to use the stronger one. Anybody know?

Any help would be much appreciated. This is my first civic, I've only had it 2 weeks but already it hurts to have it off the road in pieces.
I'm in South Australia, if anyone has a set of headers for a 1200 let me know.

Thanks, Chris

By BritCivic (128.243.220.26) on Monday, November 05, 2001 - 06:56 am:

HaHaHa!

I find this kind of thing strangely amusing.....

I can help with the English English side of the translation if you boys help me out with the American English!


Sorry but I only just spotted this topic

John

P.S. God Save the Queen!

By Nikolaj (130.161.173.16) on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 07:12 am:

There is an exhaust manifold in my Haynes manual on an EB engine which has 2 pipes coming out of it going down!! It actually had the stock one printed just above it (or the other way around), meaning there were 2 different manifolds back in the day. My Honda dealer simply says it never existed, which is off course the easiest thing to do...
Is that an RS manifold??

Also: Is it true that after putting in a new head-gasket, you have to re-torque the head after about 500 km???

By Nikolaj (130.161.173.16) on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 07:22 am:

Chris, did you use either the flywheel or your cluthplate-cover from the EN??
That will screw up everything, the bearing doesn't matter if you look at where the fork of the clutch makes contact...
I had an EB clutch on the EN flywheel and I never got the clutch to work, or get out of gear. So I suspect you have an EB flywheel with EN clutch-cover... Also, when you use the EB setup with the 5speed, you'll need to adjust the clutch further and to the max... I used to put a big nut between the engine-wall and the cable to give more room for adjusting...
I hope this helps!

By Adrian (Civicguru) (203.42.97.227) on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 02:10 pm:

Yes, that's an RS manifold. If you look carefully at some of the pictures in the engine section of the haynes manual you'll see they are of an RS engine (lumpy pistons). Some of those pictures are straight out of the Honda manual.

Yes, retorque your head at 500km and then again at 1500km (this is a pain in the ass when using quads as you have to get the inlet manifold off, which of course means draining the cooling system, to get the dizzy out to tighten the bolt under it.) Under normal circumstances it's no more than about a 20 minute job.