1989 Civic Hatch - Total Honda Virgin I am

**SiNH** · 20-02-2005 08:05 PM

Hi Guys.

I was wondering if the technical gurus on this board is able to help me.

I am a totally Honda virgin, never owned or worked on one.

I recently purchased a 1989 Civic sedan. It has all power options. Can you tell me the model code of this car so I can do some research on it more correctly? or however its referred to.

I am planning on doing a oil change and sparkie replacement and am not sure of how much oil it requires. Can you please advise me of how many litres of oil it needs? What is the required weight of oil, is 20/50W ok to use with 225,000km on the clock?

Thanking you in advance.

**Limbo** · 20-02-2005 08:38 PM

check the engine code could be an si or a Gli? not sure unless you supply more info

**ECU-MAN** · 20-02-2005 08:58 PM

it should take about 3.5 liters oil, use FEO freom your local honda dealer, also use genuine oil filter as well.

your civic is a ED with a D15B4 engine Dual carb

**SiNH** · 21-02-2005 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by ECU-MAN

it should take about 3.5 liters oil, use FEO freom your local honda dealer, also use genuine oil filter as well.

your civic is a ED with a D15B4 engine Dual carb

Yes its a dual carby, 1.5L D15.

So can you tell me what weight oil to use? Can I use 20/50W?

Most importantly, how many litres of oil ( for sure ) will I need to fill?

" use FEO " whats that? I dont understand.

**Setanta** · 21-02-2005 05:13 PM

It's designation is ED6 and its spec is GL. At 225K kms, the motor is prolly getting a bit long in the tooth but FEO (oil bought from Honda) and a genuine Honda oil filter would prolly be best. Don't bother trying to research it using US websites - their versions were fuel injected and 80% of the info is useless. Try a UK site as they got the car in 1.4 and 1.5 varients (twin-carb). Yours is a 1488cc motor BTW.

**Usual Suspect** · 21-02-2005 07:40 PM

there is a thread in the diy section about modding those engines if you were thikning od doing some stuff, nothing major, just carb stuff mainly.

**steve_civic** · 24-02-2005 10:30 AM

hey i own a 1989 ED6 honda civic as well with the same amount of Km as ur car...yeah i use 20w/50 oil on the car...pick a decent brand of oil like Penzoil or Shell Helix or if ur pedantic then go genuine FEO(Fuel Efficient Oil) enginr oil, the oil filter i just grab from Repco which is a Z79A size oil filter...a bit of a pain in the arse to change coz the filter is under the carb near the firewall so u have to crawl under there...yeah any other questions just give us a yell..happy to help out

**SiNH** · 24-02-2005 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by steve_civic

hey i own a 1989 ED6 honda civic as well with the same amount of Km as ur car...yeah i use 20w/50 oil on the car...pick a decent brand of oil like Penzoil or Shell Helix or if ur pedantic then go genuine FEO(Fuel Efficient Oil) enginr oil, the oil filter i just grab from Repco which is a Z79A size oil filter...a bit of a pain in the arse to change coz the filter is under the carb near the firewall so u have to crawl under there...yeah any other questions just give us a yell..happy to help out

You legend!

Yeah I did the oil change using Shell 20/50W and Ryco filter, champion sparkies and oil filter change and it wasnt that much of a pain if you have those "claw" type oil remover, also changed the air filter as well.

The next to do on my list is fuel filter change, can you tell me exactly where the fuel filter is? The only thing that looked like a fuel filter to me ended up being a cabon box.

I havent manage to drive the car much at all yet, but how many ks do you do on a full tank? the dude that sold me the car says he used to get 700km out of a tank but now its only getting around 550km which is a still a godsend compared to my other turbo drive.

I put in 3.5L of oil, on the dip stick it only sits between the two dots, so I think 3.5L is perfect. Is this correct?

**wynode** · 24-02-2005 03:59 PM

Yup thats right.

I think its the same for your ED, but the difference between the two dots is around 1litre

**Setanta** · 24-02-2005 04:02 PM

You're nuts for chosing ryco over OEM - but hell - with the k's on your car, it's your call =D

750km/tank... did he try to sell you a harbour bridge too? =D

**SiNH** · 24-02-2005 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Setanta

You're nuts for chosing ryco over OEM - but hell - with the k's on your car, it's your call =D

750km/tank... did he try to sell you a harbour bridge too? =D

Dunno man, i never owned a carby before. Even my first car which was 4 years older than this one had EFI.

WTF was honda thinking???

**steve_civic** · 27-02-2005 10:28 AM

yeah its great to hear the progress u made without any hassels, but for my car the fuel filter is in the rear left side of the car, u have to remove the wheel and pop your head under and you should see a filter, when i pulled my filter out and gave it a shake damm some nasty black stuff came out, initiall i thought the filter was in the engine bay but nope...have you considered changing the manual gearbox oil as well? when i did it i used Castrol VMX80 the gearbox takes about 1.8 litres of it...or again u can go and buy Geniune honda oil like everyone suggest. But yeah i get about 400-450km city driving when my car was running optimum now its probably less coz im running rich.