My friend has a 1996 civic, D16Y8 VTEC II. When he started it this morning to go back to school. It had a rough idle and start up. When he treid to get on it it bogged down. the car was jerky and putting around. A little ways down the road the check engine light turned on. The exhaust had a rythmic put to it pu pu pu pu pu pu. This problem happened without warning. the car ran fine earlier thet morning. Oil level's are good and tranny leven is good. ANY suggestions.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tei344 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My friend has a 1996 civic, D16Y8 VTEC II. When he started it this morning to go back to school. It had a rough idle and start up. When he treid to get on it it bogged down. the car was jerky and putting around. A little ways down the road the check engine light turned on. The exhaust had a rythmic put to it pu pu pu pu pu pu. This problem happened without warning. the car ran fine earlier thet morning. Oil level's are good and tranny leven is good. ANY suggestions. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah: check the code and get back to us.

 

what's the easeist way to check it without hooking it up to the OBD II machine. Can't get my hands on it right now.

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/1901557

 

I checked the CEL. it flashed 73: Random misfire in cylinder 3. Any clues why this would be happening? I'm lost.

 

sounds like it's in dire need of a tune-up

 

everyone says that. but what exactly would I do. How do you fix the misfire?