Civic2Fast

Ok sorry about the topic, but I can't get any help. My car keeps getting a CEL. I turn the car off and then turn it on and there is no light but when I start it up and drive it the light comes on. I tried to hook up the test connector while it running, because someone on here told me to but it doesn't do anything. Can anyone help me?

Mike

TheKidd

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Finest

No, you jump the connector and put the key in ACC, DO NOT START THE CAR.

The CEL will blink a few times.

Short blink = 1
Long blink = 10

Add them up. And watch for multiple codes. It'll repeat itself once it gives all the codes out.


[Modified by 98CTRCoupe, 12:06 PM 2/13/2003]

Civic2Fast

Ok I didn't start the car and the cel won't come on. Then I started the car reved it up for a while and still no light, but as soon as I take off the light comes on. So what does that mean????

Mike

BlackDeuceCoupe

Well, it could be a lot of things. If you want to know WHY you are getting a CEL, you need to figure out what code it's throwing. Do a search. There are dozens of threads on ANY Honda board showing you how to do this.

Short of that, I can tell you, from experience, that 99% of CEL's are caused by the oxygen sensors, so that's always good place to start checking for problems...

spektrum

It's funny you asked this question.

About 2 months ago the same thing happend to me.

My CEL would only come on when I was driving.

Come to find out, I had forgot to wire up the knock sensor after the swap

Wired it up and all was good.

Civic2Fast

I don't think I have a knock sensor. I did a swap but mine was just a d16z6. Every thing worked fine before, but it just started doing this.

Thanks
Mike

BlackDeuceCoupe

Correct! The D16Z6 doesn't have a knock sensor. That's one of the nice things about it...