I'm having trouble with my 91 accord. It will immediately die when I start it, but every now and then it will go ahead and start. I just noticed the last time that it was idling the clock and my radio kept flickering on and off, and the tachometer dropped to 0 rpm. I was thinking about changing the distributor from a 93 prelude. I have a prelude just setting up collecting dust and tree sap back home in my parents yard. Does anybody know if I can use it in the accord? It has the external coil and thats the only difference I know of. Just asking here before I drive 100 miles to fetch it.

 

More than likely it's the electrical portion of the ignition switch. This happens often, The part is available from honda, Easy to change, And no new key is necesary.

 

I was checking the ohms of the coil and wasn't getting a reading. So I looked on the primary terminal and it looked corroded so I started to scrape it off and it broke. So now I have to replace it whether it was the problem or not. I just looked on advance auto and they have coils from $75 and up. I don't want to spend that if the one from my prelude will work. Thanks.

another thing, there wasn't a spring in there either on the primary terminal...