I have been letting my little bro use my civic and its been driving great until 2 nights ago he calls me up and says the car wont crank at all. I go meet up with him and when he turned the key forward to crank it there was no fuel pump prime, a weird electrical noise was coming from the passenger side dash and when it made the noise the guage cluster lights would dim and flicker like it was loosing power.

So i checked the battery 12 volts
Took the main relay from my r and put it and the fuel pump now primes.
also switched out ecu with another working one.

But when you go to crank it, it still makes a weird electrical noise like something is shorting out and the guage cluster still dims out and flickers. So i disconnect the starter signal wire to see if anything would change and it did. Now when you crank it you can just hear the starter relay click. So i had another starter laying around thinking the one in there was shorting out but still does the same thing.

I am confused on whats going on and was hoping you guys can please help me out here

 

i would try the starter next like you said

 

might be your alternator

 

^^^LMAO!!! aha ....... NO!!! check your grounds under the the hood..............then check and make sure the power distribution center wires are secure......... then do a voltage drop on the battery!!

 

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i change the started out already no difference.

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thanks ill def check that, i started thinking about that before and i bet its the problem. If not ill check for a voltage drop i am pretty sure all the wires are secured fine. Thanks

 

i got money on a bad ground

 

Im sure it/hope it is. I only have the trans one on right now and it was stripped out kinda i guess from the previous owner, so just called my brother to have it check it and let you guys know.


Now if it is will this cause the main relay to go if you try to crank it a couple times because i had to replace it fuel pump wasn't priming.

 

it was the ground