im doing a b16 a swap for a customer and its all done, went to start, no spark

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i followed those instructions to test the ignitor, on step 7 i have a problem

I have no continuity between the blue wire and ground, i checked for any breaks in the wire up to the gauge cluster, and its fine, so it i have a bad ground somewhere, the valve cover is grounded, the trans is grounded and i now have 2 ground at the thermostat housing, just in case

ive been working this stupid car for about 2 weeks now, customer is getting antsy, wants his car back

 

dont know if this helps or not...

 

all those grounds are connected and secure, stupid hondas...

oh yea, the car is a 90 hatch dx

 

no codes?

 

i dont think its throwing any, ill have to check again tomorrow when im not about to fall asleep on the keyboard

 

i had a simalar problem and it turned out to be a bad engine - to - dizzy ground. i took off dizzy, and used a wire brush drill atachment and shined up the metal. never had a problem since.

 

have you checked the ground thats on the thermostat? I had the same prob and it turned out be that one. Good luck

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Turbo88hatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">have you checked the ground thats on the thermostat? I had the same prob and it turned out be that one. Good luck </TD></TR></TABLE>

i had a ground there already, i ran another ground from there straight to the battery though but it made no difference

ill try taking the dizzy off and doing that

the thing that gets me though, is this motor ran fine in the car it came out of(bought from I have an STD on here)

 

thought that was my motor. yeah man, it fired on two cyls the 1st time i statrted it, turns out two injectors were bad. so that motor has 4 good injectors on it now, i replaced all 4. i never had a check light and i NEVER had a prob with the motor not starting. fired up EVERY SINGLE TIME no questions asked. if u need any help let me know. ande should still have my number.


Brett

 

i think i bodged the wiring a bit,it sparks when the key is turned to the on position or when its turned off, not when its supposed to

ill mess with it later

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by I Have an STD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> i never had a check light and i NEVER had a prob with the motor not starting. fired up EVERY SINGLE TIME no questions asked. </TD></TR></TABLE>

my motor usually doesn't ask me any questions either

LOL

 

i think i had the 2 white wires at the dizzy backwards, it doesnt spark when turning the key on anymore

but alas, it still doesnt spark when turning the engine over, grrr, im running out of **** to try and fix

 

is there paint in the grounds...is that one ground to the starter connected?

 

My car wouldn't start because of a bad ignition coil even though it tested out fine. Couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start, every thing seemed fine and I followed the troubleshooting to the same thing you are -- bad ground. Did 2 grounds everywhere, then finally took it to a shop. They said it was the coil, replaced it and it fired up right away.

 

dude you f'd up the dual point conversion plain and simple. What harness is on the B16 first of all? You charge people to do swaps and you can't wire cars..damn man another person givin import shops a bad wrap. Man explain how you wired the car and which harness you used.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RC000E &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dude you f'd up the dual point conversion plain and simple. What harness is on the B16 first of all? You charge people to do swaps and you can't wire cars..damn man another person givin import shops a bad wrap. Man explain how you wired the car and which harness you used.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ouch...

good luck on the car bro'... keep us updated'

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RC000E &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dude you f'd up the dual point conversion plain and simple. What harness is on the B16 first of all? You charge people to do swaps and you can't wire cars..damn man another person givin import shops a bad wrap. Man explain how you wired the car and which harness you used.</TD></TR></TABLE>

you dont even ******* know me, so dont say ****

its a 90 hatch dx, using the factory dx wiring harness, i used the how-to on 4thgenhatch.com, i went over the wiring twice already and its exactly how every ******* how-to shows

and im not a shop, though i'd like to have one someday, im just some average guy who enjoys working on cars, hondas in particular...having a decently stocked garage next to my house helps too

ill see if i can find a new coil locally and try that out, what kind of cars can i get that from? i dont really work on 4th gens that much so im not sure what other coils will work

 

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you dont even ******* know me, so dont say ****</TD></TR></TABLE>

don't sweat that guy.

RC000E probably hasn't ever pulled a motor out of a car..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by drussell4801 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">don't sweat that guy.

RC000E probably hasn't ever pulled a motor out of a car.. </TD></TR></TABLE>haha owned yeah best bet might even be to find another dizzy from like a 90-91 Teggie, it could randomly be the damn honda ignigtors, meh my .02

 

i dont know man, i wouldnt try to find another dizzy, i literally drove the car to where i pulled out the motor. i doubt the dizzy went bad.

Brett

 

you never know with honda ignitions man, they die so randomly

 

ill swipe one from the junkyard in the next day or so, big toolbox is good for throwing **** in...anybody need some resistor boxes?

and the bitch is, i just recently sold my old b16 dizzy from my sol oh well, **** happens

 

still need to strip that ugly *** valve cover

 

ew, nasty valve cover

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mackenzie &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ew, nasty valve cover</TD></TR></TABLE>

thats I Have an STD's friends' fault bead blaster will soon come back out of storage, i need to do the valve cover on my sol as well, all the stock **** is chipping off