welp the daily driver left me stranded tonight

i was driving about 40 and it just lost power, i stabbed the accelerator and it jumped back to life, then 20 feet later did the same thing and wouldnt turn back on.

no spark tested directly off a plug wire onto the heat shield bolt. nothing. in the dark on the side of the road i swapped igniters from another honda, still no spark.

any suggestions on where to look next? i dont own a helms anymore or i would just troubleshoot it.

 

u just swap ignitors or caps and rotors 2?

my old 90 just died when idling one day, wouldnt turn back on. Needed a new cap and rotor, lol fixed it up perfect, wierd...

 

just igniter, the notorious honda problem.

cap and rotor looked decent, nothing out of the ordinary so i left them on there.

is the rotor a press on/off? because there was no little screw on it.


Modified by Kamin at 8:59 AM 12/11/2004

 

ya i would change the ignitor....Most probaly what it is

 

yeah its a press off, but its a ******* bitch to get off, a big screwdriver should do it tho. Im tellin ya, try the rotor and cap...

the way we determined if the ignitor was good was this drunk guy from across the street volunteered to hold a screwdriver up to the ignitor and let me crank the car...needless to say, the ignitor was fine, lol...he...was shaken up but fine.

 

hahaha im not doing that lol

ok the rotor is a press off, got it. it looks pretty bad. i tried to get continuity across the entire face of the striking strip and it wouldnt work, cleaned it off and got continuity but still no start. everything else looks to be in order tho. ima do cap and rotor once i get it home to tucson. what a time for this thing to break, i graduate college, that night it dies and today im suppoed to drive it home lol. im just gonna dolly it behind the uhaul monday.

 

oh, is it possible to install the dist. 180 degrees off on the F22's?

just covering all my bases hehe

 

no its keyed, its about 300 degrees of circle and the rest is flat, if you know what i mean

 

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i figured it was like most honda distributors but didnt stare at it very long in the middle of the night lol

thanks for the help, ill let you know what happens

 

final diagnosis: coil.

swapped one in from a D16 dizzy i had lying around. started right up.

 

yeah, now that i think about it, when i did the cap and rotor....i did the ignitor 2...heh