Occasionally at stops my engine will shut off. I go to start it and it starts but immediately dies again. After a while ill start it and it will run normal. It happens when I am moving too. The engine will die with the clutch engaged still and ill pull over, wait a little bit, and start it back up and it runs fine. My guess is main relay, but I want to know if it could be anything else?

 

its not the main relay, if the m ain relay is giving out, it wont let you start it when the car is off and a hot day, but once u start the car and have it up and running, it wont just die like that, its something else

 

alternator?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vtakvtrak &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">its not the main relay, if the m ain relay is giving out, it wont let you start it when the car is off and a hot day, but once u start the car and have it up and running, it wont just die like that, its something else</TD></TR></TABLE>

Are you 100% sure about that? It feels like when I start it, it's just running on whatever gas is left in there and then it just dies again and also if the relay gave out and cut fuel there is no question that the car would die.

 

no CEL too...

 

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The battery light did not pop on when this happened.

 

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The battery light did not pop on when this happened.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah... sorry. i just thought about it right now.

 

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yeah... sorry. i just thought about it right now.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I appreciate the help. The battery is reading 12.65v right now and its been sitting all day, so I am almost possitive its not the alternator.

 

would be the map/tps sensor problem, maybe add more slack to the throttle cable for now, then check the readings on the tps/map

 

My friends did that exact same thing when his main relay went bad except for the dying part. But sometimes after a drive when he went to start it it would just crank and you would not hear the fuel pump prime. But after a few tries it would work again.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SOHCD16y8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My friends did that exact same thing when his main relay went bad except for the dying part. But sometimes after a drive when he went to start it it would just crank and you would not hear the fuel pump prime. But after a few tries it would work again. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah I am just wondering if anyone has had their engine die while driving when it was a bad main relay. I took it out and resoldered all the joints and it still did it last night.

 

Could a bad ground from my battery cause this? My terminal is kind of bent and it didnt seem to go on that great last time I had it off.

 

what you listed in the first post was exactly what mine did when the main relay needed repair.
try fixing it and see if the problem goes away...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Relic1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what you listed in the first post was exactly what mine did when the main relay needed repair.
try fixing it and see if the problem goes away...</TD></TR></TABLE>

Okay so when you were driving it did it too and not just when you were trying to start it?

 

Just incase anyone has the same problems as me. It was the ignition switch

 

It probaly won't hurt you also to change the fuel filter

 

Incase anyone is having similar problems check out my other thread...

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1470013

 

try checking the fuel pump... might be going bad.