Hey, I have a 96 civic cx hatch. Long story short, the car isnt starting, a friend lent me a dizzy that im trying to dissasemble to try out the ICM and the Ign. Coil .

The starter works, car cranks, I hear the fuel pump turn on. The car was workign it just suddenly died. I figured it was either that or the Main Relay.

Right now im trying to take the Rotor off, we took off the little screw but we can't seem to remove it, on either distributor.

Looking for a diagram or some tips on how to take it apart.

And any ideas on why else the car wouldnt be starting.

 

Alternator?

 

Car still turns on. There was a hint of spark on one of the wires, but the other 3 wouldnt show any.

Everything else in the car turns on. Just not the motor lol

 

either, bad plugs, bad wires or, like you've said, something with the dizzy. It could just be a bad cap or rotor.

 

Also, if the engine doesn't turn on but everything else does, it doesn't mean your Alternator is good bub. A battery runs the electricity until THE MOTOR RUNS. An arternator runs off the belt drive, which moves when the engine is on. Ding ding. An engine needs a good alternator to even sustain movement or turn on.

 

http://techauto.awardspace.com/ignition.html#key Found this, and im thinking its the ignition coil.

We just can't take off the rotor, any tips?

 

Every rotor I've ever worked with just pops right off. Bout to do my Honda for the first time tomorrow, but my jeep and silverado always just slid right off.

 

WD-40 the hell out of the rotor screw and grab a big *** screwdriver for extra torque. Just don't strip it!

 

Oh man that made me lol, we were just saying we should use WD-40 and then I hit F5.

Thanks, we'll get to it!

 

Freaking rotor popped off the replacement dizzy.

But we could not take the rotor off of the dizzy that was on the car, infact we were using a screwdriver for leverage and then the top part of the rotor snapped off, and left the plastic and metal part still attached to the dizzy. We drenched it in wd-40 and we couldnt get it to budge at all.

However, the good news, is that the replacement Dizzy, fired the car right up! :D

So it was more than likely the Ign. Coil like I had said.

Thanks alot for the input!