EFfin Sedan 91

I don't usually ask questions here because 99% of the time I can find them by searching but this is an odd one. Yesterday after I got to work I smelled coolant getting out of my car, so I looked underneath and saw a waterfall. Opened the hood and saw the heater hose going from underneath the distributor to the firewall had a small hole near the clamp (on the firewall side) The car never overheated or anything like that.

Anyway I changed the heater hose after work, filled the car up with coolant and tried to start it but it wouldn't turn over. I checked all the grounds and rechecked all the grounds thinking maybe I knocked something loose but I couldn't find anything out of place. One of the spark plug wires was off the distributor but I put it back on and it still wouldn't start. Could it be that by some weird **** circumstance my distributor went out at the same time this happened? I checked for spark and it wasn't getting any. The car is a 1995 civic with d15b7 d16y8 mini-me. The distributor is from the b7. Any help is appreciated because I'm stumped.

Former User

The coil in the distributor probably blew when you cranked the engine with a plug wire disconnected.

EFfin Sedan 91

That's what I was afraid of. I got a new one to try and replace it but couldn't get the rotor to come off the distributor for some reason.

Former User

If you removed the rotor screw, buy a new rotor and then muscle off the old one.

EFfin Sedan 91

Will do. Thanks for the help!

grumblemarc

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I had to break my rotor off once. It was the first time I did a tune up.

Boosted*B

Did you get this fixed?? You said it wouldn't "turn over". Sounds like you just knocked the start wire off the starter as its right below the heater hoses.

HondaPartsHero

I think he meant no start not no crank because he said he checked for spark and the only way to do that is to have the car crank.

Boosted*B

Good call.