Im out cruising around yesterday and as im going through an intersection the car sputters a bit and dies. the tach needle was going crazy and jumping all over the place so the first thing i think is dist. i manage to limp it into a business area where i popped the hood and saw nothing obvious. I had cleaned the engine bay with some spray the day before so i was thinking i got some moisture somewhere inside some connectors/dist. I check everything and everything was dry. I waited a while and drove the car home under 2k rpm it seemed fine. I took all the ignition stuff and used some stuff called 'gust' to dry it all out. Checked all the fuel lines, injectors and fpr for leaks and nothing. let the fan stay on the engine bay for about 1/2 hour and started right up, went for a spirited drive to about 7500rpm and everything was cool. Today i get in the car and drive around, everythings fine until about 20 miles into the day, the same damn thing happens again. The car will idle 'ok' but if i give it any gas, it sputters and wants to die. It wouldnt even start the last time i tried, though i didnt let it crank for long. OBD1 LS/vtec in a 92 VX Hatch using a p28 ECU w/ hondata s200. Any info or help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you....

 

I stated this before, but what has me thinking ignition is that the tach is all over the place. It will sputter and sputter upon initial startup but idle fine after 10-15 seconds until i give it gas, then it wants to die.

 

anyone?

 

Stand Alone

 

erasing your post

 

it sounds like water in the distributer or maybe timing? i do details for work and some times i soak the motor with the pressure washer and it does that. but a day after thats weird.

 

Thats what im saying. I must have driven the car 20-30 miles after the washing before the problem appeared...

 

Did you check for spark and fuel?

 

im getting fuel, i have a FPR and a slightly leaking inj. i know im getting spark because the car will idle...

 

bump for more opinions...

 

loose rotor inside the dist? anyone ever had this happen before? if so, were the symptoms similar to mine?

 

you should check the timing.

 

ill be lookin at all the basic stuff tonite as soon as i get off work... ill post again if i find the problem in case someone else ever runs into this...

 

anyone else?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LsVtec92Hatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">loose rotor inside the dist? anyone ever had this happen before? if so, were the symptoms similar to mine?</TD></TR></TABLE> This happen to me but it wasn't loose, the plastic actually melted and let the metal Ring screw move about 1/4" and threw off my timing to the point that I couldn't rev it past 3k rpm's.
A bouncing tach is usually a symptom of a bad igniter.

 

ill take it all apart tomorrow and check the connections. I have the factory manuals for the car so ill see what tests i can do for the ignitor with my multimeter.

 

Fixed it. Just one wire was loose going to the ignitor.