Please Help... Ive just about had it with this problem...Jumped my car ...The car started fine and then shut off after about 20 minutes of idle and would not start up again...the batt completley died and its basically new. So then i jump it again and it starts...i notice on my vtec controller it goes from 14.6v to 14.. to 13.. and so on till it dies....i notice if i rev the engine it will recharge the volts....so i gave it some gas the the thing is intermitley reving about up to 1500 rpms then to about 500rpms very quickly like vrooom psshh vroooom pshhh vrroooom psshh felt like it was trying not to stall or something...the lights were dimming every time the rpms went down and when they went back up to 1500 they would get brighter....i was so scared and i just shut it off.....i had the same problem when i had my skunk 2 im installed and it was something to do with vaccum pressure...please shed serious light on my issues here thank you so much

 

time to check your alternator, take it to a decent parts place and they should be able to test it for you.

 

would the alt be why the bitch keeps dying and eventaully stalling and going vroooom pshhh vrooom pshhh like vroom increase in rpms psssh abaout to die vroom increase pssshh about to die

 

It's just a ground somewhere or the alternator...

 

my car did the same thing when my IM was installed and the guy adjusted a vaccum hose...i checked the negative ground and its fine and the alternator seems fine when i check with a voltage tester the thing lights up red

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by billabongkid13 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">my car did the same thing when my IM was installed and the guy adjusted a vaccum hose...i checked the negative ground and its fine and the alternator seems fine when i check with a voltage tester the thing lights up red</TD></TR></TABLE>

Slow down....why don't you ask that guy which hose you need to adjust?

There are more than one ground wires. How did you 'check' it?

What kind of tester are you using? If it has colored lights it's probably crap, you would need to use a multimeter to check voltage.

Sounds like you have no clue what you are doing, so I would suggest either doing a little research on here about your problem or taking it back to the shop.

 

i dont have a multi-meter....i checked the ground to see if it was connected and not soddered or anything and it was fine...umm yes i did reaserach and no one seems to have this wierd idle/stall problem and the guy actually is not around anymore

 

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I would go get a multimeter then. What ground are you talking about? There are battery ground, transmission ground, valve cover ground and ECU ground wires besides all the other little ones scattered everywhere. Why would anything be 'soddered'? Unbolt the ground and clean sand the mounting point so you know it has good metal-to-metal contact.

Trying to read your 1st post again it sounds like you probably have a vacuum leak somewhere. Search for the official bouncing idle thread by 'mgags7' and try some of the fixes in there.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by billabongkid13 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">umm yes i did reaserach and no one seems to have this wierd idle/stall problem</TD></TR></TABLE>

??!?!?!?!?!?!? seems like half of the threads on here are idle surge!!!!

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1979500

THANK YOU mgags