Hey all need some major help advice anything you got. The car is a 1998 Honda civic LX auto. What happened is recently at about 60 mph the cars rpms will drop from 3000 to like 2200 and keep bouncing and lurching. I replaced the fuel filter, checked all vacumes and I went to clean the cap, rotar, and spark plug wire ends. I put it all back together and it started super quick for a couple seconds and died, Tried to crank it again nothing. No spark at all so I'm figuring I shorted out the coil or the whole distributer. A friend told me I may have messed it up by cranking the car with the key to get to the screw on the rotar to take it off ,with the distributer cap off causing the coil to shortout. What do you guys think I tried a new cap and rotar still no spark. Much appreciated -Ryan

 

Bump really need some help.

 

Test the coil and ICM.

 

What could cause it to short though any ideas appreciated -Ryan

 

Bump anyone?

 

Your friend was right. Do the tests.

 

Thank you I'm gonna try that today and I'll post my results. You guys are the best! -Ryan

 

I'd start with the coil, as I had something similar happen with my old prelude.