Old goat

Guys I have a 98 civic ex and when I take off in the morning in first gear the car just falls on its face . It runs fine when just sitting and reving it. If I let it warm up for awhile the problem goes away.
Any ideas?

David12

honda's suck when their cold lol. just let her warmup

delsolproblems

The most common cause of this is an intake manifold vacuum leak. You can check for this by testing the MAP sensor signal voltage and/or by spraying starting fluid on the leak. If you spray starting fluid on an IM vacuum leak, it will change the idle, usually causing it to rev up a little. Another possibility would be a bad or dirty FITV.

Old goat

thanks for the help

paknoy

sounds familiar.. what happen to mine was the distributor somehow one of the bolts got loose and i was told mis aligned right after they fix it i got my power back.. i suggest also tune-up or your tranny is going bad...

justnprsh07

First thing I would check is timing if it was a vac problem normally it would surge at idle but would run fine as soon as you gave it any gas at all

d1rtyd33z

Do you have an automatic or manual transmission? If you don't find any vac leaks and you have an automatic, you might have a transmission issue. It seems like it should throw a code if the problem is in the a/t, though.

angel_i

Sounds like every Honda I've owned.

B18B1-Crx

i would say its your distributor...Mines going out and it has no power one second the the other it snaps your neck back?