I was cleaning my throttle body today and i noticed that there was only about half of a throttle body gasket on there. I went to autozone and bought a new one. Got home..scraped off the old one and put the new one on..and my car wouldn't start. I took it off and tried it with no gasket and it runs..but idles really low. Kinda strange. Any ideas? I wonder if the OEM Honda gasket is different and will fix the problem. I'm gonna try it tomorrow, but does anybody have any other ideas? I have a 95 Ex with D16Z6, T25 Turbo. Thanks in advance.

 

did it line up with all the ports on the TB?

did you mess with the idle screw?

 

Most peculiar.
Double check your hardware and make sure you have to correct torque values.
Let us know what you find.
This is an odd one at that.

 

It seemed to line up, but it was pretty dark and i was trying to hurry and get it done before i have to work tomorrow. I didn't touch the idle screw either.


I also don't have a torque wrench i just went G.N.T. (Good n' tight) ha.

 

Make sure you haven't swapped some sensor connectors.

 

The only two i touched were the TPS and the MAP sensor. I'll double check to make sure they are hooked up right.

 

This is the one is used. Is it supposed to cover all the ports?

 

I would guess they sold you the wrong gasket.

 

Can't tell but your Map sensor port could be covered by the gasket or something else.

 

I vote you mixed up the two sensors. They have the same plug and are extremely easy to mix up. Two things will happen...your car will crank forever, or itll start with real shitty idle and shut back off. When it happened to me i got no CEL either