darksolderx

Ok, so i painted my valve cover last night took it off and painted it red replaced all the gaskets on it because that was the main point of taking it off this morning i put it back on and used hondahond on each gasket and when i put it back on its not running right anymore, it idles really hard like its having a seizure of some sort and drives like ****, i figured i put the sparkplug wires in the wrong place but i doubt it im 99% sure they are correct. the car was running pretty great before this and now its just **** i could really use help. also its a 00 si.

CivicSD

the valve cover is supposed to be black. your car is having a seisure from the rice red paint. paint it back to black and everything will be OK.

SOHConthis

yea probably ur wire.id double check

dannyly17

seizure as in rev up and down? fast rev's?, please explain

darksolderx

not really fast revs it just idles hard like how some people say theirs idles like it wants to kill mines kinda like that, and it kinda idles fast then slows back down but it still shakes the whole car and shakes motor -_-

darksolderx

the thing about the wires is that they cant really go any other way they are just too short to reach oppositly so im sure they are in the correct order what im not sure of is how good a condition my plug wires and plugs actally are

Linked

make sure that all spark plug wires "pop" onto the spark plug

minimal but make sure you have that hose going from the top-left of the vc to the intake arm, if you still have it (this wont make a diff though)

darksolderx

im pretty sure they all popped onto the sparkplug lol and i have that hose going from VC to intake

SLURS

iTrader: (1)

too funny

darksolderx

yep regular charlie chaplan, bump for more info on my probluuums

AutoXer

Did you check to make absolutely sure that the plugs are on correctly?

Did you use hondabond on the whole gasket? From what I remember the FSM it only went on the corners.

MonkeyMagic

dude, if you lived closer.. i'd buy you a beer

9secondcivic

take a pic of ur drizzzy and ur spark plug wires and post it ...so we can see what it looks like???? are u sure u didnt touch anthing else????

Mr. EG

Clean the surface where you ground is located on your valve cover. The new paint is most likely not allowing it to ground properly.

9secondcivic

i second that.....thats also possible

darksolderx

yeah i used hondabond on the WHOLE gasket and the little grommets and the um things that go on top of the valve cover -_- i wanted it to be really sealed.....

also im sure they are in correct order if they were in any other order they wouldnt reach

Mr. EG

Did you try what I told you, considering that is most likely your problem? Go over your grounds you are getting a weak spark.

Former User

This is flawed logic. You should check the firing order.

darksolderx

bump pics posted , yes mr.eg i checked the grounds they look fine

Former User

Plug wires 2 and 3 are switched.

Civicsi27111

It's obvious in your pictures that the two in the middle are swaped. Switch them and you should be good

darksolderx

do you mean on my VC? or distributer cause i never moved the wires on my distributer

Mr. EG

Just follow the firing order that Ron gave you. Use your common sense.

Former User

My response to you on a different site was:

darksolderx

ok -_- problem fixed thanks everyone sorry for my lack of common sense