Everything is good, but 95 Civic DX won't start.
01-14-2012, 01:07 PM
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Re: Everything is good, but 95 Civic DX won't start.
Here's my hypothesis of what happened:
I seafoamed the car, and flooded it a little. While trying to clear the flood, I removed the spark plug wires and took out the plugs. I then cranked the engine to clear out the gunk, WITHOUT disconnecting the distributor (shame on me). I eventually learned not to do this the next day, but I guess the damage had been done. New plugs and drying the engine probably would have worked if I disconnected the engine, but for the bit of time that I cranked the engine with nowhere for the spark to go, the charge started to degrade the insulation in the coil - enough for a high voltage spark to arc across, but not enough for a multimeter to pick up, hence why it passed the test.
I seafoamed the car, and flooded it a little. While trying to clear the flood, I removed the spark plug wires and took out the plugs. I then cranked the engine to clear out the gunk, WITHOUT disconnecting the distributor (shame on me). I eventually learned not to do this the next day, but I guess the damage had been done. New plugs and drying the engine probably would have worked if I disconnected the engine, but for the bit of time that I cranked the engine with nowhere for the spark to go, the charge started to degrade the insulation in the coil - enough for a high voltage spark to arc across, but not enough for a multimeter to pick up, hence why it passed the test.
01-14-2012, 01:45 PM
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Re: Everything is good, but 95 Civic DX won't start.
Here's my hypothesis of what happened:
I seafoamed the car, and flooded it a little. While trying to clear the flood, I removed the spark plug wires and took out the plugs. I then cranked the engine to clear out the gunk, WITHOUT disconnecting the distributor (shame on me). I eventually learned not to do this the next day, but I guess the damage had been done. New plugs and drying the engine probably would have worked if I disconnected the engine, but for the bit of time that I cranked the engine with nowhere for the spark to go, the charge started to degrade the insulation in the coil - enough for a high voltage spark to arc across, but not enough for a multimeter to pick up, hence why it passed the test.
I seafoamed the car, and flooded it a little. While trying to clear the flood, I removed the spark plug wires and took out the plugs. I then cranked the engine to clear out the gunk, WITHOUT disconnecting the distributor (shame on me). I eventually learned not to do this the next day, but I guess the damage had been done. New plugs and drying the engine probably would have worked if I disconnected the engine, but for the bit of time that I cranked the engine with nowhere for the spark to go, the charge started to degrade the insulation in the coil - enough for a high voltage spark to arc across, but not enough for a multimeter to pick up, hence why it passed the test.
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