Yeah I took the battery out and I have no alarm on my car. The power cable is connected by the wire in a quick disconnect. Not just exposed wires in the batter

 

Again, I am not questining the integrity of the sub wiring, just wondering if something else is loose or broken at the battery posts or main harness/connection to the battery.

 

If engine will not even crank, [turn over] it has nothing to do with the spark plugs, the fuel filter or wires, [assuming you mean spark plug wires] possibly the starter, although it does work sometimes.

I still think you have a connection problem of some sort.

Now that it will not even crank, do you still get cluster lights and gauges, all the stuff that turns on when you turn ign. switch to run?

Can you still hear the fuel pump prime when you turn the ign switch to run?

Do horn and head lights still work?

Does your dome light work, if so, will it stay on when trying to start the car? 94

 

last night it died on me on the way home. I have no horn so I wouldn't be able to answer that lol. My headslights were on fine but than started to flicker so I turned them off. Was stuck for about 15 mins than I pushed it and it turned on. At this point I don't remember hearing the fuel pump cut on. So last night what I did was replaced the fuel pump and took my car for quick food run and it ran fine. My headlights weren't flickering at all. Dome light was fine. As of today I put on all my sound equipment back on and let it run for about 20 minutes and it was completely fine. Tomorrow I'll put it to the real test by driving it to work. Now with this new fuel pump I could actually hear it louder than the old one. Plus the old one had some sort of a ring when I shook it. Could it just been time for the fuel pump to go out? It's. 98 integra rs and just hit 129k

 

So now
Replaced fuel pump and my car still shuts down on me, i ran a battery test at work and it said good battery, than i ran a test again and it said to replace the battery. Why would it change from good to bad all of a sudden? Still used my battery car turned on perfectly fine but still turned off while driving like 20 minutes later. To start it up me and my friend had to jump start it. Im thinking there is no fuel getting into my system. Going to replace fuel filter next. What do you guys think?

 

No fuel, "Im thinking there is no fuel getting into my system" would have absolutely nothing to do with the engine not cranking, [turning over], starting and stalling possibly, but not cranking.
No fuel would also have nothing to do with a dead batt, "my friend had to jump start" or do you mean bump start, [push start] it?
I'm still thinking an electrical connection problem. 94

 

Yeah sorry for all the mix ups bcos I'm posting from my iPod at work. Well yeah I'm going to return the filter. What I mean was push start the car not jump start and yeah that's what I'm guessing now. It's all electrical. I just want my car to run smoothly that's all

 

Last night i decided to clean the ignition switch and i put it back on, car still turns on and all but when i drive for about 10 minutes the revolutions drop but i give it more gas and it doesnt end up stalling. Other than revolutions just drop and it completely dies out on me. Ending up pushing my car to my house last night :/
Any other ideas of what it could be?
I appreciate all the help im getting

 

Bump. Help

 

Have you redone all the main connections?

Start by redoing the main grounds, batt., batt. to chassis and chassis to engine, undo the connections, clean both contact surfaces and reconnect, do not jut eyeball and tighten them.

Do all the main power connections, same way, remove clean and reconnect start with batt. pos.(+), batt. to starter, batt. to engine bay fuse box, all main fuses in engine bay fuse box, [the screw down ones] the alt. charge line, [at the alt. and the engine bay fuse box].
The only way to make sure you eliminate those connections as the problem is to pull them right off and clean both contact surfaces and reconnect them "snugly".

Do you know yet if it is fuel or spark you are losing when car stalls? 94

 

I would say both. Well when I changed my fuel pump I noticed my car was drinking gas like crazy and than when I drive the revolutions immediately drop and I press the gas pedal and that's when it keeps going. I'm going to check all my grounds. Clean them off properly and sand down any paint so it can be bare metal.

 

Took off all the grounds that i found
Chassis to valve cover
chassis to transmission
chassis to thermostat
Cleaned all of those up
Disconnected and cleaned from the fuse box
Got a new battery
Removed some old alarm harness that was still there
Disconnected my antenna motor so it wouldnt get power out of there

So when i go to turn it on it turns on fine and everything but as soon as i turn on my headlights (which i had an h.i.d system) it completely shuts down and doesnt want crank up. Sounds like it wants to attempt to but just cant turn over. Im thinking it may be my ignition switch? i took it apart with the tutorial thats on team integra.net and cleaned it all up but still no luck?
Please i need to fix this. This is my only car and i have to go to school and work.

 

So, it is fine without headlights on? You wired in HID, and it shuts off when you turn them on? Seems to point at the HIDs or wiring if that is correct.

 

Well when my car turned off when I switched on my lights that only happened once . After that I turned them on while The car was running and it was fine. So I really don't know what it could be

 

Still indicates a grounding issue.

One more thing, some of your phrasing is confusing.
So as not to confuse anyone...

When key is turned to run, [not start] it would be called on or ign. on, all the cluster lights and gauges will turn on, [no tach yet] your signal lights will work, in other words, "you have ignition".

When you turn the ign. key to start, the engine will "crank" or "turn over", when cranking/turning over the engine can "fire" but not start, [sounds like it wants to start] if engine starts the engine is "running"...

When "car turns off" should be, engine stalls or engine dies.

You have ignition.
The engine is cranking/turning over.
The engine fires.
The engine starts.
The engine is running.
The engine stalls/dies.

Using common terms will make it easier for use to understand exactly what is happening. 94

 

Yeah sorry about all the confusion. Just that when i wrote those post's i was doing it on my ipod at work but ill straighten it out right now.

I recently did what FCM told me to do by checking all of my grounds. Took all the grounds off, made sure that they were clean and cleaned up the chassis. I did the valve cover to chassis ground, the transmision to the chassis ground and the thermostat to chassis ground. I took off the 100amp fuse that is located in the under hood fuse box, cleaned all of those up. Cut down my terminal wires to clean the corrosion off of them, tightly bolted them down to the actual terminal. I rechecked my connections on the starter, they are good.

After all of that was done i turn the key to the run position. I hear the fuel pump prime itself, all the cluster lights and gauges turn on, the stereo turns on fine and windows still have power. Once i turn the key to start or to crank it turns on perfectly fine. All indicators on the dashboard go away. Let the engine run for about ten minutes and than decide to turn on my headlights(HID), all of a sudden the engine completely stalls(doesnt hesitate or anything just stalls). On the cluster the battery and the oil indicators come on. (I still have power to stereo and windows). I turn the key to run again and the same process as before happens but when i turn the key to start the engine is cranking but doesnt seem to turn over. It sounds like it wants to turn over but just doesnt have the power to turn over. At this point i keep attempting to turn over the engine but doesnt at all. I leave the car alone for about a couple of hours and than the engine finally wants to turn over. The engine is running but on the idle it starts off in between 1 grand and 2 grand than drops directly under 1 grand.
Hopefully i explained myself much better this time and dont cause any confusion.

 

"engine is cranking but doesnt seem to turn over."

I assume that turn over means start or run. To me, cranking is turning over, the rotating mass is rotating (turning over) with the starter, but not starting. Sorry, not trying to pick, but understand. That has caused me some confusion through the thread.

 

Lol yeah sorry again for all the confusion. What I'm really trying to say is the engine is attempting to turn over but can't. Hope that helps

 

Have you tried completely disconnecting the HIDs, not just unplugging the lights but disconnecting the power supplies for the lights.

It sounds like something may be miswired or possibly a defective HID power supply. 94

 

I have not attempted to disconnect the whole HID system. I've had them for atleast a year now and I've never had a problem with it before but I'll give it a shot.

 

Electronic parts, [power supplies] go bad over time.

The problem is definitely in the lighting circuit, possibly the HIDs, [easiest to eliminate] but may also be before the HIDs. 94

 

sounds like the altenator about to crap on you.

 

Sounds really reasonable to me. Once I get out of work I'm going to take out the HID and plug in the original headlights. I also have foglights on my integra. Should I play it safe and disconnect those also.
Might be a dumb question but wold the HID system cause my car to stall even if the HIDs aren't turned on?

 

Just unplug them, leave everything in, and run the car. If taking them out of the circuit does not solve the problem, then they are not the problem and you can leave them. Unplug the HID and try it. If that doen not work, then unplug the fog and try to determine the problem lights or wiring, HID or fog.

 

The HID power supplies could cause a problem even if the lights are off as they will have 12V+ constant, [most likely from the batt.] connected directly to them. 94