ok i bought a 91 crx i was drving it and all of a sudden the rpm dropped then the car died i was like hmmm wtf i tried to restart it 0 power what so ever so i go look and the battery cable fell off and htt the frame... now the car wont restart but it cranks.. i get sparks i checked all the wires and plugs timeing is ok but it is getting fule cuase i could smell it in the cylinders ... what could be the problem... something had to of shorted out but what?


Modified by nicholai at 9:27 AM 8/26/2005

 

check the fuses under your dash and in the engine bay by the battery. you prolly blew them

 

there all good i checked them all

 

Check positive battery cable for corrosion. It will corrode inside the insulation and then after sometime is just stops.

 

no thats good too oh i forgotto mention there is also a short somewhere the baterry keeps drainning itself overnight. i never had any of these problems till that cable fell off and hit the frame...

 

If the motor is cranking over then it has to be something electrical.

Check your coil in the dizzy and see if it's toasted. If not just go over all your sensors. Also check your ecu, you might have had a send back in power. Are you throwing any codes?

 

its fine i thik my injectors are STUCK open i am getting way to much fule inside to the point were its flooding out the exsuast and it fireballs hahaha

 

Your injectors probably aren't open, you're not getting enough spark. Check your grounds, those can cause weak spark. Your dizzy might be fried... stuff like that.

 

witch battary cable fell off. more importantly is your battery tied downed. i have neve had a battery cable fall off

 

I would be willing to be its the ignitor or coil inside the distributor

 

Zero power? if its that its main fuse...... top left of battery in little black box....u can c if there blown. gl

 

did u fry the ground to the valve cover?

 

it was the postive cable its not the main and the battery is in the trunk.. all fuses are ok dizzy is ok

 

i finally gave up i took it to the shop and dropped it off told them to fix it .... DUN DUN DUN

 

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i have. I had never seen anything like that happen before it. I was driving to Chicago and when i would hit the brakes at idle the check engine light would come on and the radio would cut out. I was freaking out. I had just done some wire tucking too the previous night and actually finally installed my battery tie down so i had reason to worry. Got to school, parked the car. Turned it off and tried to restart it. Click. Pop the hood and the negative battery cable was laying next to the battery.

The terminals on both of my CRX's are to the point where you can't tighten them down anymore though. I was going to put new ones on (actually have them) but i'm going to relocate my battery so i'm dealing with it until then.

 

mine is in the trunk

 

for future reference, in order for honda-tech members to help you, you have to give alot of information about what is wrong with your car.
Otherwise you'll always be the guy spending $100+ at a shop to fix something you could have fixed yourself in 5 minutes, if you had just been clear about what was wrong with what part.

Better luck next time. Shops, in my opinion, aren't that great and usually just rip people off. I know because we have 4 customers a week come to us with bad information that was given to them, by a shop.

 

um if i knew what part i would of said it.....i gave a desciption of what happned becase thats all i no....

 

i finally got the car back from the sop and it ran fine for the day then it over heated.... n its fucked up now.... it loses half its power at low rpm when moveing have to literally floor it to make it move 20mph