they look like distributor wires and not coil pack wires...





wondering if that's contributing to be what seems no spark, or once very rarely... that or cause it has 237,5xx miles haha



anyway i got the car at a steal and i've been wanting toget a honda so it worked out so if it does need a rebuild well not too big of a deal... cause i'll prolly swap haha

 

they look like distributor wires, cause they are, and no spark might mean your cap and rotor are the *****

 

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I'm gonna take a wild guess and say maybe because you have a distributor, and not coil packs.

 

ok i'm not quite that bad... they look like dist wires and i've never looked at coil pack wires for a honda so i thought i'd ask.

and the car is not distributed so the non existant cap and rotor can't be bad, unless for some odd reason honda tuns the dis timing off of the cams?! cause it bolts right to the side of the head like a 4G63, like a VR6, and like every other coil pack car i've seen (except cars that individual coil for each cyl like the VW 1.8T engine...

so those wires did not seem right cause there was nothing in there for the ends to attach to, using for example this VW 8v cap i had laying around, notice it has poles for the wires to attach down in there. well this is just an empty cylinder with metal bottom and sides with no poles in there. and what else points that it is coil pack'd and not distributed is there is no coil wire going to the top of the cap to send power through the wires...

 

Of course its on the side of the head. Where else would it be? Distributors run off the cam. They have for ever. I don't know what that is in your last picture. But you better believe your car has a distributor. And that being said those are distributor wires. Take the cap off and change that and the rotor.

 

right, well then honda is the first car i've seen the distributor run off of the cams, they usually run off of the crank or off it's own drive from the timing belt

i stand corrected so i'll see what i can do but i think it's dead... (low compression on 3 and 4

 

The distributor HAS to turn at 1/2 the speed of the crank. So it can't ever be driven off the crank. VWs & LOTS of other cars drive the distributor off a jack-shaft or even geared at 1/2 speed off the crank.

Honda often puts the coil inside the distributor cap. So the coil wire you're looking for is molded into the cap. You'll see it better if you take off the cap.

VW is one of the few who uses those funny poles in the cap. Most make contact from the metal sides of the holes, to the wire clips that press out against the sides of the hole...

 

Trust him this guy Jim knows his ****

 

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Actually most use male towers(or commonly reffered as HEI style) instead of socket style connectors. Then again most anymore don't even use distributors anymore.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sack Master &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... HEI style...</TD></TR></TABLE>LOL - oh yeah. I guess I don't play with domestic cars that much. You're right.

 

yeh i've never messed with non domestics till i got into VWs although i've owned many like a mint 85 supra, so where all the one si have seen were the male socketed dist. so it confused me seeing this... so noting i have no compression i need to rebuild anyways...