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Hey guys, so I have a 1999 Honda Civic LX, someone went through and messed with the ignition wiring harness attempting to disable the aftermarket security system put on by a buy-here-pay-here. In doing so he somehow screwedup the wiring in the car, and made it to where it wouldn't start. I clipped the security system and rewired (BLK/WHT to BLK/WHT, BLK/YLW to BLK/YLW, and so forth) the ignition harness back to what I think is factory. Well I've got the car to the point where it cranks and almost starts. A friend of mine that's a mechanic came and looked at it; said that there's no spark. Could the 'Blue' Tachometer wire have anything to do with it? or should I be looking at the Distributor, any help would be great!
Last edited by Samuel Nichol; 02-07-2016 at 03:05 AM.
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Measure voltage to body ground on the Blk/Yel wires.
Timing belts fine also, I had someone crank it over while I watched the belt go rounds, so it's fine. I can't find the connector to save my life. There's a blue 2 pin not plugged into anything?
Last edited by Samuel Nichol; 02-13-2016 at 07:13 AM.
Timing belts fine also, I had someone crank it over while I watched the belt go rounds, so it's fine. I can't find the connector to save my life. There's a blue 2 pin not plugged into anything?
Hey did you ever find out what it is I have a 2000 lx with no spark or tach checked everything can think of and still nothing
Timing belts fine also, I had someone crank it over while I watched the belt go rounds, so it's fine. I can't find the connector to save my life. There's a blue 2 pin not plugged into anything?
The blue 2 pin is the service connector, can look up civic service connector, or how to pull codes without a reader on civic on youtube, ericthecarguy has a pretty good video on that.
Could be that the ignition coil has gone out, those like to go out after any kind of ignition stress, especially if they are already weak. But I would try to check codes and double check wiring before buying one of those, if you or a friend have one laying around wouldnt hurt to swap a different one in just to see if it starts with the different one in.Or if you can just swap the whole distributor with a friends and see if it starts after, and if it does, you know you have a dist problem.
Hard figure out wiring/electrical problems without actually looking at the car.
(Edit) Just realized this was a super old thread lol
Idk if you already have, but you can pull off a wire, and plug a spare spark plug into the wire, and touch the spark plug to the engine while trying to start to confirm that there is indeed no spark.
02-06-2016, 07:20 PM
'99 Civic, No Spark, No Start?
