20 Most Recent 1987 Honda Accord - Page 3 Questions & Answers

The switch should be near the oil filter.

Check ground and hot wires for corrosion may just be a bad wire

If efi it will be controlled by the cpu settings. If carby it may be either electric element heating a bimetalic spring or heat from the maniflod. Eother way the adjustment will be by loosing off the screws that hold the cap in place and turning the cap slightly to increase spring tension or release spring tension. The direction is imprinted in the cap with arrows.

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The usual way would be with headlights off to check the two wires going (usual number) to that lamp unit, look to see compared to other lamp if the wires on both read the same resistance to ground---the motor for example.If its blowing a fuse when turned on you have a short either across the wires or from a hot one to the chassis or metal of the body.Short to the body or frame or across the wires going to the bad lamp side. all you should need is a volt/ohm meter.--could easily be a wire for the light touching the metal frame or body of the car.

Have you looked to see if the bulbs need to be changed , if you have it might be a blown fuse or the wiring could be messed up

you have a vacuum leak some where take a can of brake clean and spray a little on the vacuum hoses and if the idle goes up then that is where the leak is

have you located and tested the flasher are your 4-ways working I would look at these first then check the bulbs as well as the grounds

Sounds like the linkage is jammed follow the cable to the transmission look to see if anything is stopping the linkage or if the linkage is damaged check your brake lite switch this controls the shift solenoid this may not be releasing to allow you to shift when pressing on the brake

Trade it in for scrap and buy american

Could be a vapor-lock problem where the gas in the carb is boiling out.You could try carb cleaner sprayed into the air cleaner to verify.Could also be the fuel pump relay if equipped.

A mechanic would check for power at the dimmer switch for each circuit.

well it might juss be a little shortage in the cars main battery

That would be your engine "choke" functioning. It's not a problem. The choke engages when engine is cold and shoots extra fuel to the cylinders to idle the engine up especially in cold with. Once the engine has sufficiently warmed up, the engine will idle back down.

It cuts down power by 1/4 so what do you think based on that?