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have an 88 civic dx with an ls turbo my timing belt is dead on and my distributor is fully advanced and it still only fires at zero degrees every check I've done is with my multimeter so far my ecu is good and my distributor is good but I'm guessing the code is caused by the bad ignition timing? just looking for some thought on someone elses behalf please help

 

I'm not so sure about the distributor. It sounds like you are in limp mode, which is a very depressing time. Did you check all the sensors in the distributor?

 

The crank angle sensor and or TDC sensor are what tell the ECU to fire an ignition event. If those sensors are bad you will need to replace them or the distributor itself. This will cause all kinds of misfiring and unwanted timing issues.

 

the crank angle sensor is going bad, on my situtation the coil was also bad too.

 

yea my car threw a crank angle sensor code when my distributor went bad.