ok well i have an 88crxHF with a 89crxSI motor and ive posted sooo many help me topics on hear its not even funny. ive changed plenty of parts so far and still my cars messin up. ive changed the distributor cap and rotor, spark plugs and wires, battery, and fuel filter. STILL the car turns off outta no where!!! so now im trying to figure out what else it could be!!! i doubt its the fuel pump cuz it still delivers fuel cuz i can smell gas in the engine area when i pump the pedal. so now im guessing that its the timing? iono because a few days ago one of my homies friends said, " hey your idles too high and i can fix that" and so he went and played around with that screw on the throttle body which i dont nkow what its called and as i can recall since than thats when the cars been turning off. so could it be that???????? im soo confused with this car?!?!? anything else u guys can think of????

 

Im guessing he turned the screw to much and the idle is way to low and just cuts off unless you give it throttle..Is that right ? If so just screw the other way untill you get a desired idle..What does it idle at right now anyway?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.speaker &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Im guessing he turned the screw to much and the idle is way to low and just cuts off unless you give it throttle..Is that right ? If so just screw the other way untill you get a desired idle..What does it idle at right now anyway?</TD></TR></TABLE> sounds like that to me i was messing with my idle screw today and it would do the same things....

 

well when i turn the car on it idles around 2000 and when it goes down when it warms up or whatever it idles around 600-900. when my homie was test driving it after we put in the fuel filter it would drive fine but after having it sit there while on it would end up dying out. than we tried starting it and it would start and than die right away, than start and die right away again and than we'd have to give it gas to start it up soo is that the problem??? the throttle body screw????

if it is can u post a pix of where it is on the throttle body cuz ive been tryin to look for it and i can find it at all!?!? either im blind or its hard to find!! hahahah


"buy a cheap car, end up with many problems"

 

i cant post pics right now,im not home but its right on the tb cant miss its a big screw inside a hole and you need a flathead screwdriver to adjust it.and to adjust it up turn it to the left i believe should solve your problem........

 

Its the gold screw on the throttle body..Now this pic has the throttle body upside down but you get the point...Also make sure the motor is warm before you adjust,,Dont adjust during cold idle..

 

LOL that is if he can get it to stay on long enough to warm up. I had the same problem mine vibrated loose. I've read it is suposed to be turned all the way in then turn it out 2 full turns. It should idle around 750, mine idles at 1k should be easy fix

 

shoot! well i warmed up my car like u guys said and started turning the screw to the left and back to the right a little and it turned off on me. and since than the car doesnt want to start up. so how would i go on and fix it? or get it to start up again? so now that i was messing with the screw im assuming that for sure it was that screw that my friends homie was messing around with thats turning my car off

 

just keep messing with it man you'll get it.......dont give up

 

ahh just dont mess with it anymore and sell me the car.....no but seriously just keep messing with it and if keeps shutting off when you start it then have someone sit in the car and give it gas till you can adjust the screw

 

ahha well today i had some guy that worked at a local auto parts shop come through and from what he says hes like a pro with crx's n honda's n stuff so he came through and took a look at my car since it wasnt starting up.

so he asked me to push the car while we tried push starting it because he said that the car was choking? because theres too much fuel in the engine? so we pushed started it a few times but no luck the first 5 times but the 6th time it started up and ran for a while and it was idling around 2000 rpms n than started getting lower as it warmed up and as it was around 1000 rpms it died out. than we tried to push start again and no luck.

we took a look at the car n he took a look at the fuel injectors and he said maybe some of them have cracks in it? and that may cause the car to turn off because the fuel isnt being sprayed and its more like dripping??? so iono if that could be the problem?? also he told me to get one of my friends to let me borrow their throttle body to see if it works with theres and if it does he said it could be the idle control sensor or something


can anyone tell me if any of these make sense??

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by manyakiexpi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ahha well today i had some guy that worked at a local auto parts shop come through and from what he says hes like a pro with crx's n honda's n stuff so he came through and took a look at my car since it wasnt starting up.

so he asked me to push the car while we tried push starting it because he said that the car was choking? because theres too much fuel in the engine? so we pushed started it a few times but no luck the first 5 times but the 6th time it started up and ran for a while and it was idling around 2000 rpms n than started getting lower as it warmed up and as it was around 1000 rpms it died out. than we tried to push start again and no luck.

we took a look at the car n he took a look at the fuel injectors and he said maybe some of them have cracks in it? and that may cause the car to turn off because the fuel isnt being sprayed and its more like dripping??? so iono if that could be the problem?? also he told me to get one of my friends to let me borrow their throttle body to see if it works with theres and if it does he said it could be the idle control sensor or something


can anyone tell me if any of these make sense??</TD></TR></TABLE>


Makes somewhat sense to me, get yo **** fixed (bump)!

 

oh yea and i forgot to mention that one of the fuel injectors did have a crak in the head of it where it sprays so i obviously need to change that so hopefully that'll do the trick.

 

anyone else have any ideas?? cuz im pretty much still stuck!

 

YES the reason my car was turning off was due to a crack in one of the fuel injector heads!!! i replaced the damaged fuel injector and not once has the car turned off!!

 

good job, now that's work that paid off. Where did you get the replacement injector? Junkyard? New?

 

i bought the fuel injector used from a honda-acura stripping shop. it was 25 bucks a pop which was pretty good i would say. but yea AFTER I FIXED THAT, I REALIZED IT WAS THE LAST OF MY PROBLEMS. that night after i changed the fuel injector i took it out for a drive for about 30 min to the local auto parts store to get some carb cleaner so i could clean the air idle valve . than today i took it to the shop to get it timed and set the idle and it shut off on me once on the way there and it shut off twice when the guy tried moving it into the shop to take a look at it and 1 more time after the guy set the idle and what not. he than checked it again and ran the car one more time n said it was fine. than as i was getting ready to leave i was reversing and the car tunred off on me again and wouldnt start anymore. the guy took a look and checked the s-plug wires and said there was no sparks. he said its my distributor. i replaced my cap and rotor last week so is there ne way those could go bad that fast? or could it just be the whole distributor? so yea i had to push it down to my ladies house which was jsut around the corner because the shop closed and any cars left would be towed so yea i payed 35 bucks for nothing! any way i can fix this distributor? without buying a new one?

 

if he said distributor then im sure that's what he meant

he would've said cap or rotor or somethin if he meant those

get one from a junkyard or go buy a new one, there expensive new but if your not getting any spark and have checked anything else, then it's a good investment

 

u know when they say that it could be the coil or the ignitor? is it the starter coil? iono what these two things are. im a newbie so yea please help me out haha

also is there ne way to test and see if the distributor is bad?

 

If your still confused about what it is, then id just recommend taking it to a shop and telling them what youve done already and see what they think the problem is

 

It sounds like it could be the ignitor to me. I had that same problem a while back and thats what it was(even though everyone on HT told me i was crazy and that couldnt be the prob). I worked on a friends car that was doing that a few years back and it turned out the Main Relay was slowly going bad...but i honestly think that was a once in a lifetime thing.

Another thing you could check is the grounds. After i replaced my grounds the car would just stall sometimes. Turns out that one of the grounds would vibrate loose and lose contact.

You should also get the timin checked. Timing being off can cause ALOT of weird problems that you wouldnt associate it with.

BTW-You should get a Helms manual and a voltmeter and check all the components in the dizzy. There should be a how-to in there on it

 

ok i solved the problem guys!! i sold the damn car because theres soo many problems with it!! im kinda mad though because ive put soo much time and money into it but oh well. im hopefully going to get an 88crx tommorow!! with a b16 in it, cold air intake and first stage clutch so yea HOPEFULLY!! thanks though to all you guys that suggested ways to fix the problem!!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by manyakiexpi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok i solved the problem guys!! i sold the damn car because theres soo many problems with it!! im kinda mad though because ive put soo much time and money into it but oh well. im hopefully going to get an 88crx tommorow!! with a b16 in it, cold air intake and first stage clutch so yea HOPEFULLY!! thanks though to all you guys that suggested ways to fix the problem!!!</TD></TR></TABLE>HMMM well thats a little crazy way to solve the prob but hey best of luck to ya.just a bit of advice though these are older cars,so learn how to fix them or stay away from them.just my 02.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by d16efhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">HMMM well thats a little crazy way to solve the prob but hey best of luck to ya.just a bit of advice though these are older cars,so learn how to fix them or stay away from them.just my 02.</TD></TR></TABLE>

deffinitly agree, older cars are always going to have some kind of problems, so man up and learn how to work on em, make alot of money to pay someone else to, or go lease a new car

some cars however do need to be sold to get rid of the headaches, i had one i put 2K in parts into the first month i owned it, then sold the ****** thing for $1,200, thats just how it goes sometimes

bought my next car with that $1,200, put $30 into the car and sold it for almost 3K

good luck with the next one