2001-2005 Honda Civic Engine Removal | D17A1 / D17A2 / D17A 

A little research before i pull my non vtec. Appreciate your time in making this video

Gotta say this, big props to you and all others who have the knowledge and can do this. I admire you guy’s.

Thank you! I'm 15 and bought a honda civic with 274000 miles on it and there is a hole through the bottom of the motor. Your video is really helping me!

Loved it! No BS just the necessities. Thanks for the video! Just blew my d17a2 that I've owned for 2 weeks.....got another on the way and will be my first swap

Just did my first engine swap with your guidance. Out of an EX so i appreciate the small EX tips. Thanks 🐐

Very grateful 🙏 for you sharing your knowledge ! You have helped me out many times wrenching on Hondas!

Thank you for the video. I fix cars for a living and just bought a 04 civic lx with a d17a1 that has a broken rod. Sometimes it's good to get a visual demonstration on how to remove the engine. Again thanks for taking the time to video all of it

Hey my engine went in thank you and just know I will pray for blessings for your family. Ty for all the help. I still have to get the d17a2 trans brace but other than that she fierd right up.

This guy is amazing he helps a lot of people save you lot of money thnks so much and god bless you 🎉👍👊

Awesome video it helped me a lot on my first engine removal. Very helpful tips too. Thank you . Looking forward to checking out part 2 putting the engine back in. Be blessed

Thank you so very much it was very informative, I'm replacing my engine as well, I so have the vtech version though. I now know I don't have to take every damn thing apart to pull motor!

Thank you, This Video Really Helped A Lot, Literally just took this 2004 Honda Civic 1.7 Engine out with your help😊

Excellent video. I will use this as my guide to R/R my D17A2. Endless gratitude.

You are a great help. I recently watched your video on the transmission removal and it helped me tremendously. I'll be swapping the engine out to go in my other Honda.

Great video which helped my grandson and I swap the engine in a 2003 Civic for a JDM engine. Just a few minor things that we had to figure out.

I'll be watching this again soon.

Great video! I'm doing a kswap in mine after the motor blew. kept it nice and simple. Thank you!

Thank you for making this video. I thought I was gonna have to drop engine & trans together out the bottom. I haven't done a engine swap in a long time and was a little hesitant. Thanks to your help I just finished up and came back from a test drive. One of the easiest swaps I ever did, but I would have done it a lot harder if it wasn't for your video. Thanks again.

YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME! Gonna GET at IT RIGHT NOW.

AMAZING!! First time working on one of these on my own and this thoroughly helped me. Hoping its smooth sailing for me tomorrow. Thanks a bunch.

As a tip, from personal experience. Remove the balancer and it comes right out with a manual transmission

glad i rewatched this. getting ready to reinstall my engine and realized i forgot to install my crank sensor...

Great video! Gearing up and making notes of important points. How about a manual trans addendum? :-). I did the clutch a few years back and definitely did not have an easy time rejoining Trans and engine. Would love to see how you do it and any tips

Just took the engine out a 91 caprice wagon, very barbaric, sawzall minimal wrenches and a hoist😂 Getting an eg hatch from family putting a k24 in it, want to be less destructive, amazing video brother.

thank u so much realy helpful just the trodel we dont need to moove it

been waiting for this car

Thank you! I recently did my head gasket on my d17a2 only for my piston rings to go bad 😂. I'm just gonna rebuild another a2 and just swap it over.

Thanks for the great vid! I'm at the part separating the transmission from the engine and this video helped a lot!

Anyone else's car go BOOM and then they found this XD

Thanks for sharing this video, and having such a great attitude and efficient communication! Well done!

thanks, needed for my car. Planning to build the d17 in my garage and boost it but wanted to rebuild the 275k mile d17 first haha

people love these single jingles

Having some trouble finding the second bottom bellhousing bolt you mentioned. Any help would be appreciated man. Thanks for the video. Watched it a million times during this process.

Good job brother!

Hey buddy thanks for all your videoed I’m going yo tackle this shortly played and stopped your video to take notes, thanks for all your help and tips, I’ll let you know how it goes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 to you and your videos well explained, wishing we we’re neighbors

Awesome video! Had to watch this to see what's involved. I'm debating between doing a JDM engine swap vs fixing the head gasket on my 196k mile EX. The cost is a bit higher on a swap, but not by much. The labor between the 2 is a toss up.

I wish you a local here in lakeland fl. I attempted to do a head gasket job on this car but the ex model and hate this D17 with a passion. Lets say I gave up. Looking for someone now to either do the work or help me find a way to put a D16 any version. The D17 mates to NO!! other engine or transmission.

Best video by far. Very well explained. Thank you. God bless

Thank you!! I got bad rod knock in my lx. Now thinking about doing my first swap🙏🏽

at 25:43 when talking about those last 3 bolts. mine had three bolts on the front side of the engine. one near the very bottom, one mid level of the block it self and one tucked WAY up directly under the water pump assembly. i missed this one. shattered the bell housing. just an fyi to anyone else doing this pull. now i get to try to tig that section back together.

I am currently stuck on how to get the rear bell housing bolt out above the drive axle?

Cool vid man, very helpful. I watched the trans removal vid too. I fucked up my gf's trans casing on her civic (now our spare car) accidentally. Was in the process of dropping it out of the bottom over the course of a few weekends but decided to just pull it with an engine hoist.

Nice work really easy … and understanding providers..

Looking into maybe a k20 swap

You are awesome thanks for the video, very nice!

Use heat when pulling off the exhaust, especially if u live where theres salt on the roads, those springs bolts break really easy and are a bitch to take off the flange if they break

Very detailed video thank you for all the information appreciate it😊 very helpful

Do you recommend replacing any components when installing a used jdm engine with ~60k miles?

Helped me a lot thank you

Green bastard rocks 🤘🏼

Thanks man! You're the best!

Big help. Thank you. Keep up the good work, please.

Привет из России. Хороший мотор. Катаюсь на HONDA Edix 2005 год. Надежный и простой. Спасибо за обзор. Хорошей жизни и благополучия.

I am getting a jdm 1.7l vtec and I'm pretty sure I could figure it all out. Is there a possibility you can email me a list of things needed to make this happen? Oh I have lx (non vtec) I'm going to a vtec version. What will i need exactly? I've gotten mixed opinions and answers. You seem to be very knowledgeable in honda engines and I think I can trust your answer. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hey thanks so much for the reply and out of curiosity would it be more cost effective to just replace the motor with fewer miles or just replace the head thanks again

Can you take the motor and transmission out together? The one I'm working on has a seized motor so I cannot turn the crankshaft to get all the bolts out of the torque converter.

Man brother, you really helped me alot on my 1st import engine swap ..thank u and I appreciate your help on video thank you

I need a video on how to put an a2 back together right

Your the man. Thanks brother 👍👍

Thanks!

Great video bro

Thankyou bury you so good man

What a legend I have to take out my motor and deal with a bent rod

Thank you sir

How would I hook up vetch in a dx shall

I'm pulling the same exact non vtec non egr 1.7l. Your video is very helpful. Would you recommend a refurbished motor dealer? Online or whatever. If not thanks for the vid.

Just finished installing a jdm on my 2004 lx with the help of your awesome video! I started it up and there's a check engine light including a oil sign on the dash. There is smoke coming from the manifold that I put on the new engine from my old U.S. honda engine. Must be the penetrating oil that I applied to remove it form earlier. I found the connector for the oil switch on the backside of the jdm engine but it didn't seem to fit, so I connect it to the connector to the oils switch for the vtec oil sensor (i think) by the left side of the valve cover. Im wondering if that's the reason why the oil light is on. The car starts up great and it drives but those two lights on the dash is making me wonder if it is safe to drive. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Awesome video, so helpful! thanks!

You have any helpful hints on removing the crankshaft pulley? The 19mm bolt is giving me problems.

Assistindo do Brasil... Vou retirar o meu motor e esse vídeo vai ser de grande ajuda...

Hey man. These are awesome videos you have here!!! Keep it up!!! They are very informative!!! I do have a question. I am trying to decide how to go about a rebuild. Have bad rod knock and I want to do a basic rebuild (salvage what I can in the engine). I want know where do I buy the parts from??? I have read that I need to buy only Honda parts for it to last. Is that true??? Are there any aftermarket parts dealers that you recommend??? Thanks...

if i'm pulling engine and trans together, would you suggest dropping it through the subframe or pulling both out the top? Really appreciate the info, thanks.

Hey man I was watching this video and was told bye the dealership that there was excessive play with the camshaft causing improper readings of my camshaft sensor and that’s why it keeps throwing a p1361 code is why it starts and runs for a a few seconds and goes into limp mode so I was wondering if you’ve ever run into this problem before and if so any advice would be appreciated thanks in advance

The ex I have doesn’t have V-Tec but the motor I will get will be a D17A2. What do I need to add so I can run vtec on my Ex? Help !

Im looking to swap a non vtec for the jdm vtec in a 2004 Civic lx, have you run into any check engine issues. I watched both of your civic removal and install videos, which are excelent. Im ready to purchase the jdm engine but dont what to create a nightmare for the reinstal. Any thoughts?

thank you

Hello, my d17a1 just took a crap. Can i put in a d17a2 without hooking up vtech or chaning anything else out?

hey bro you know the measuret the cables transmission manual i believe es two

I have a question about my 02 civic 1.7... I had to do an engine swap and my old motor had 2 throttle cables hooked up to my throttle body. But the new one only has 1 for a hook up for the cable. Am I able to only hook up the one that controls the gas ? Or do I need to hook up both with my original throttle? Will it hurt if I only used the 1 not both since the new motor doesn't have for both?? Mine is a Manual and went from Non Vtec to Vtec so y'all know.. thanks

So my d17a1 gave out on me, im thinking of buying a jdm d17a engine, can i use a d17a2 ecu on the jdm d17a?

Please suggest or tag the video for the changing of AC to Hot Air changer motor??

You the best. Explain it well.

So I have a 2001 Civic EX did the swap with d17a only issue I'm having is all the warning lights on the cluster or illuminated what would cause that I'm hoping that you would be able to help me cuz I can't find anything online and I only have until the 3rd of the month to get it registered or I have nowhere to park it please could you give me some insight thank you great channel also man you was a life saver

I have a 2001 lx manual and was wondering if i had to drop the motor with the subframe? Any help would be appreciated thanks

can u do a video on removing the housing alos is the housing chainging the same i need put a non egr on for d17a bc need for tp pass visual smog test

Does a 99-00 civic hatch need specially mods to fit a k20, and how much does a k20 run for now days plus transmission? I don't know much just asking.

I hate the bolt behind the belt.

Hey there, why is it that if it was a manual trans you would have to drop it from the bottom opposed to following these exact steps?

First, great video. Do you need a lift to raise the Civic or can it all be worked from the floor? Thanks.

Another question. Can I put vtec soloinoid on non vtec engine and head

hey! i know its been awhile since the video was posted but i have to do a swap on my 03 HX any advice on where to get a motor for it? or if i should but a different one in?

Plz tell me difference btw d17a vs d17 a1

I have an ex with manual transmission, have you done a video on how to do a swap with manual transmission?

so with manual i would just bring it out the bottom with the subframe and trans at the same time?

Hey, @TheHondaResourse I was wondering if you could explain to me where the clutch line goes into the engine on this model car but it being a manual??

Never pulled engine from a front wheel drive. My son's spun a bearing, will be pulling and installing a used engine.

Question I have d17a with a manual swap . Can the d17a2 ecu work with it?

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Very nice 👍👍👍

Question, did you have to remove fuel relay from inside car first? I saw another video that said you had to do that first but I can’t get mine out. I have a D17A1 & im replacing it with another A1