David Guevara

Recently been having trouble with my car. My car battery keeps getting drained could this be caused by my distributor? I think it went bad. Its an aftermarket one.

civic402lx

Maybe more like your alternator not charging your battery properly.

mk378

Distributor will not do that.

The first check to make is to measure the voltage at the battery with the car running to see if the charging system is working.

fcm

Ditto the above, check voltage at batt. with engine off then running, must be done with fully charged batt., if good, about 12.5 not running and no more then 14.5 when running.

If good, do a parasitic drain test.

To do a parasitic drain test all you need is a 12V test light, [not the LED type] disconnect the neg. batt. lead and connect the test light ground to the batt. cable and the test light probe to the batt. post, test light is in series

Make sure everything in car is off, if the test light lights up you have a parasitic draw, something is staying on and drawing power, you will need to find it, pull fuses, one at a time, until test light goes out and you have found the circuit 94

David Guevara

I havent test the voltage on battery but yesterday I had just picked it up from autozone so I dont think the battery is the problem, now I did test for parasitic draw and the test light does light up when I touch ground terminal with ground post on the battery. Also yesterday when I picked up the battery from autozone I put it back in my car and I got the same no start crank issue.

fcm

Sounds like you have more then one problem.

When you say no start, what do you mean?

Engine cranks but will not start or it will not even crank?

MM&Y of car and auto or 5speed? 94

David Guevara

My 1999 Honda Civic Ex isn't starting

It all started one day when my car wouldn't turn on my battery had been drained so i took my battery to my local autozone and they charged it for me and when I got the battery back I put it in my car and car started right up ran it for 20 mins and then parked it. Well the next day I try to turn my car on and it wouldn't start so I decided to take the battery one more time to autozone to get it charged and again I put it back in my car but only this time the car didnt fire up. I checked my battery with my multimeter and I'm getting 12.2 volts. I checked to see if I'm getting a drainage with my test light and I'm getting zero drainage. At this moment I'm confused.

What should be the next thing I look into? Thanks in advance

fcm

Check your main grounds, batt. to chassis and chassis to engine, DO NOT just eyeball them, disconnect/clean/reconnect. 94

David Guevara

Ground to battery is clean I cleaned it when I got battery. What other grounds should I check

Would it be this diagram?

And my car is manual btw.

civic402lx

Check them all.
Especially the tranny to chassis one. T4, engine ground cable B.
If its green or corroded, it will give u issue.

tablecivic

Maybe a dead cell in the battery? is it old ? or the alternator isn't charging battery.

David Guevara

They told me the battery was good at autozone.
Battery is 3 years old.

David Guevara

So my car cranks but doesn't start and it has spark on all coil plugs

fcm

Do you have fuel, can you hear the fuel pump priming hen you turn on the ign., pump should run for a few sec. then stop? 94

David Guevara

My fuel is a bit low but I dont think that can be the cause of it anyhow I will put some in just to check that off the list. As for the fuel pump I do hear it prime

fcm

Check for power at the injectors, with ign. in both the run and start positions, you can unplug the exciter lead from the starter to prevent engine from cranking while testing. 94

David Guevara

Checked injectors with my test light and it checked out. I also took out the spark plugs to check them and this is the condition they are in another thing was when I took them off I got the smell of fuel in the engine Im not sure if thats normal?

David Guevara

I also forgot to mention that I checked my fuses underneath the dash and when I went over the starter switch fuse which is a 7.5 it wouldn't light up my testlight could that possibly be the cause?

This all started after a rained about a week and a half ago.

Former User

There's no dash fuse for the starter. Post a picture of the fuse in the fuse box.

If you mean fuse 31, it provides a starter signal to the ECU. It only gets voltage with the key in ON(III).

David Guevara

Could it be my timing belt? If so how could I check it without having to remove alot of parts?

David Guevara

This is how my timing belt looks, I have totally ran out of ideas of what It might be Time to take her to a professional thanks to everyone who helped I appreciate it

David Guevara

Another pic

Former User

Long past due.

David Guevara

I got the worst news so my mechanice told me my valves are shot

tony_2018

how did he confirm that?

Was he able to show you?