Hey everyone

I have a 90 Honda civic LX that started squealing from the bearing going out (red dust everywhere) so i got a new distributor from autozone. Now i forgot to see what way the rotor was facing before i changed it so i could put it back on the same way. So the first try it wouldnt start so i knew what it was. I took the distributor back off and turned the rotor 180 degrees and it started right up but now whats happening is its running rough and spark knocking. I cant find my timing light atm so i dont know exactly what its set at though no matter where i move the distributor it still runs rough. The idle basically is jumping a up and down really quick, not really like a surge though. But anyways i test drove it like that and what happens is that if i gun it to like 6k rpm it will turn the check engine light on then automatically wont let me go over 3.5k rpm in all gears. Im assuming this is a limp home mode? The ecu code that i get is 4 quick blinks which is the crankshaft timing sensor i think?. Did i miss an adjustment somewhere or did i maybe get a bad distributor?


Modified by coocoobird79 at 1:11 PM 4/22/2008

 

you did something wrong if you got the dizzy on 180 out. the keyed shaft is offset so it can only be put in one way, I have seen one tried to be jammed on the wrong way and bolted down, you dont want to know what happened

 

perhaps you jumped a tooth when your dizzy siezed up

check the firing order too...

dizzy 3 2 4 1 timing belt