WELL... for the past 33 hrs straight i ALONE have been working on my eg hatch. Im under the gun here...
SO... i take out the tranny and everything infront of the rad support to fix my front end from a situation that occured 2 days before xmas (see signature for thread link). I changed the clutch, pressure plate, and throwout bearing (all OEM). i followed the Haynes manual and took the 3 distributor mounting bolts off-removing the distributor.
NOW.. i come to crank it and WOW.. runs like ****. first it sounds like its flooded trying to kick, then itll kick and run like a diseal motor before stalling. i tried **** loads of different paterns for the spark plug wires... the best was the one i just explained and the worst was something like this: powerful cranking...CLUNKK...powerful cranking continues....CLUNKK... and so on and so forth goes the pattern. sounded like it was misfiring and/or detnating and the piston was hitting the cylinder walls...

One of the patterns i tried ran... (shitty as hell but better than the rest) only think was.. i pushed the throttle cable (from underneith the hood) and as it climbs through the rpm band the tone was POPPING and not only that ... with every POP (as long as i was touching the throttle cable) i got jolted...
I pulled the distributor off again and spun the piece in the back that interlocks w/ the camshaft to try to maybe set the ignition sequence right?? went out and got a new set of wires (the plugs are only a month or so old.. no need for replacing)

I also took the battery terminals off to try and reset the ECU.. NADA!
btw: the CEL is NOT on (well atleast for the few seconds it runs)

^now thats that.. Now my clutch pedal is EXTREMELY soft.. not to mention no matter how hard its pressed in.. THE CLUTCH DOESNT DISENGAGE!!!
-pedal to the floor
-car running (still shitty)
-come to put it in gear... ::GRINDING SOUND::

btw, im hungry and exhausted so im taking a honda-tech break so i didnt yet bleed the clutch.. if that could be y.. THAT WOULD PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE ...but if not tranny comes off.. pressure plate bolts get loosend...

you expereinced ppl out there...please... take some time to give me a suggestion or advice.. this is my daily and im screwed w/o it...

thank you for reading thru my (long) cry for help
(i salute you)

 

i hope you didn't put the distributor in wrong. don't ask me how, but i've had to fix cars where people have done it before. i won't mention names, and actually now that i think about it, i don't see how someone could actually jam it in there backwards..

 

LMAO no no nothing like that.
the end that goes in the camshaft was spun a couple times therefore throwing the dist off timing. I just got done fixing it, I set the dist. and the motor to piston #1 TDC. after that i played with the wires a bit and the SOB kicked right over

 

so hows the clutch? still soft? that just means that u need to bleed it

 

theres no point in explaining it all over in another thread.. here, read this.. its the more active one...https://honda-tech.com/zero...age=1