this problem is driving me crazy i need to know if it is a timing problem or not.....i am not gettin enough air into the intake......burning rich once you touch the gas it stalls......any help will be appreciated i need this car on the road thanx

 

auto or manual trans?

 

manual.....i had a 91 crx si and when u hit the gas the intake sucks ur hand in and this one is getting no air.....its a 89 civic dx with the 1.5l sohc manual transmission and i jsut did the head gasket in it but it did it before i did the head gasket..i jsut baught the car for 600bucks so i wanna find out what the problem is to i can get it in for an e-test



Modified by 89hbcivicguy at 8:15 PM 9/29/2004

 

does it idle really high?

 

no not at all the only other problem i notice is it is burning rich and its almost like when u touch the gas its floodin itself but the plugs arent wet.......but they are black!

 

and what causes black sparkplugs?

 

too mcuh fuel.....but in this case it is too much air......because im not gettin the air i need
not enough air sorry

 

check your compression.

maybe your timing belt skipped a tooth.

 

if your idle is really low like 300 rpm. theres a lil screw on the throttle body and if u turn it the right way ur rpms magicly go up or down

 

no it does not idle low or high.....its jsut not getting enough air into the intake.....only happen when u touch gas pedal.......when u touch gas pedal its nto getting the aior and it stalls out and takes a while to start again.....no idle problem

 

bad intake air temp sensor? are you throwing a code at all?

 

measure the TPS voltage.

and do a compression test.

 

It sounds like the tps is not working properly or you have a vacuum leak.

 

i dont know about the tps or intake air temp sensor and compression is 150 on all 4 but im gonna check the timing and redo all the vaccum lines and its throwing code 16 (fuel injection circuit) any other idea's out there for me to check i gotta get this thing on the road

 

take a look under the distributor cap also my car had similar symptoms and it was because the distributor was bad'

 

but did it stall when u touched the gas??it idles fine but once u touch the gas it stall and its throwin code 16 soo

 

what am i lookin for under the cap?

 

is it dpfi? if its dpfi and one of the injectors is unplugged itll throw that code and cause that problem.

 

my friend had the same problem on his integra when ever he would touch the gas the car would bog down almost to where it would turn off. I did the same thing that you did. i put my hand by the throtle body to if it sucked in my hand and it didnt. It turns out that the timing was off. so check the timing would be a good idea that could be it.

 

man u make about no sense....is it multi point injection or dual point? 2 u changed the headgasket right? did u align the head tdc and crank tdc? this could be ur problem....but im not sure if it did it before u changed the headgasket because your english is a little confusing....oh well thts ok with me but anyhow state ur probelem in one post detailed and maybe we can help u fix it....are ur sparkplug wires in the right order? ur o2 sensor probably screwed up now also....map sensor vaccume lines could be messed up also theres too much stuff that could be wrong shoot

 

alriht guys i re did the timing and checked ignition timing.......still having the problem.....but something i left out is that when you turn on the key the engline light flickers really fast..and doesnt stop.....so i go to the engine bay and something in the vaccum control and something in the intake is makeing a ticking sound.......makes no sence to me any idea's?