major problems guys need help. ok i got gas and got about 300 yards away my car kills... won't start after that thought it was a fuel problem but drained tank bled lines and changed fuel filter. still won't start. so i pulled off one spark plug at a time and none of them are getting fire. no idea i put a mitchal test on my coil and coil pack still good now next i think it is somethin in the distributor because i just changed my spark plugs and put them on a machine and it shows they are working very well. so it is either my rotar in the distributor or one of the magnitised sensors in the distributor. anyone else has ever had a problem like this before my engine barly has but 60 or 70 K miles on it... so no idea need help quick without a car.. so driving moms lol

 

Get your mitchel out. If you know how to use a multi meter. It tells you exactly how to test each peace in the dizzy. After you changed fuel filter and drained the gas. Did you remember to put more gas back into it. Honda dizzy's are known to go bad. I have a 2000 dizzy if this will work for you. 100 bucks shipped

 

yes i put gas back in it... the 2000 dizzy will fit on my 93 engine or no i'm not sure about it.. and is it the usdm dis. or jdm dis. and just the dis. by itself

 

You DO NOT NEED TO PLUG AND PLAY DIAGNOSE. This is a very very expensive way to diagnose. I didn't read correctly. I know the dizzy will fit but I'm not sure it will work cause its obd2 and I think they may be different. Get your mitchel out and test. If you wanna call while your out by the car I'll walk you through some pretty easy test that we can do on the phone and they only take a few seconds. A couple easy way around things kinda diagnosing. I'll pm you mynumber

 

so your only symptom is that your not getting spark?

 

take your dist cap off, check your points in it and your main point from coil pack, replace if needed...and also check the rotor in the dist, replace if needed... if your coil pack is working properly and your not getting spark on plugs im 99.9% positive its yur points and or rotor in your dist. check it out and post back see if that helps if bot i can help you further

 

points? like contact points or actual points I dont think we have points its electronic ignition?

ok so I have a question it might seem weird but go put everything on normal like how it was when it was running. get in the car turn the key to the on position does your check engine light go on for a sec then turn off? If not let me know. I have an answer for you.

Other then that I would say swap for a good known dizzy. was your tach acting up before it died?

 

yes my tac was messin up very bad... and no check engine light ever came on

 

ignitor inside your dizzy. almost positive thats your problem

 

the ignigtor you say... which one is that i can look it up but if you had a pic it would be much easier cause i want to do it today and i put some test on it earlier and i got somethin with my coil i think... cause my coil had the right voltage on the A and B points but when you test from Point A to the Tower i got nothing.

 

that is what my teach said one of the lil sensors in the distrib could be bad but we got .06 on all the wires in ohms

 

hey if you are going through and checking things with measurements and a manual use the flow diagrams to see what is bad. If you checkd the coil then maybe its that I would check out the ignitor though it sounds like alot of other hondas problems.

 

the ignitor is the magnetic one or the smaller one in the dis.

 

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I do believe its the actual unit that everying connects to. um I tried but i cant find a picture.
sorry

 

Ignitor is a common problem in that generation Prelude and Accord. You will get no spark and VERY little, if any, warning.

 

I had a similar problem with my 92 and it was the ignitor. Car would die randomly (stoplights, freeway, anywhere) and not start until it cooled down, then it stopped starting at all. Main relay is also a common problem with these. Good luck.

 

I'm not saying anyone is wrong maybe somebody could shed a little light for me. But if the ignitor is out why would the tach go crazy. Is this where you get your tach signal.

WHere do you get the tach signal from. The ignitior or the cps in the dizzy.

At a shop when we get as far as you. Test the coil and its putting out spark, and then testing the plug wires and you get nothing. We install a loaded dizzy. Not just and ignitor. I have replaced the ignitor and teh little magnet fell off once on a jeep and I had to pay for the dizzy cause that wasn't my orional estimate. That sucked. I had to pay to work on that guys car.

 

well on preludes both the main relay and the ignitor are common problems. when there is hard starting or stalling and the culprit is spark it is usually one of those in the preludes/accords. but the whole tach jumping that is something that always happens . the tach signal is actually connected right to the ignition control module(icm)ignitor. blue wire.

 

Yeah I'm not sure why your tach would be going crazy, when my car was stalling the tach was still ok. However if you have been messing around by the dizzy maybe you bumped one of the two plugs behind it, one of which is the tach signal. That happened on my car and it worried me for a bit before I found that loose plug.

 

thanx for all the help guys but it was the ignitor. the lil magnet in the dis. i changed it and put everything back together and it started first crank and my tac is back workin like normal again thanx guys much help...