I am new to the forum but hoping you guys might be able to be of some kind of help to me. I started having the problem that it appears a lot of 92 Accords have in that it would crank and crank and not start, it would every once in a while but when it did it ran super rough and would idle hunt. I took it to a shop and had a diag done. I replaced the main relay and it seemed to fix it, it ran great for a day and would start up and idles super smooth now. This morning when I went out to go to work it started hard starting again but eventually turned over. Had to do the same thing coming home from work and it just randomly died once while I was driving. When it is running its smooth and no longer idle hunts, but it seems to be hit or miss if it is going to start or not, and obviously the random dying while driving is a problem. I am figuring that now it is either the ignition coil, igniter or distributor. Any suggestions on where to start or any easy way to check any of them? I am rather lacking for tools but I can borrow whatever I found out I exactly need. Any help would be great.

 

I forgot to add, sometimes when I am trying to start it, after I let the key go back to the 1 position, the tach will bounce a little bit and sometimes without me trying to engine will try on its own and turn over like one or two times.

 

Pay attention to the tach when it acts up or won't start.....meaning you are have the key to start, the starter is spinning the engine and the tach is doing nothing.

My guess, replace nothing on a guess, either the ICM or the elect part of the key switch is giving out......again, proper testing is needed.

 

Try cleaning the thermostat ground. I had a similar problem once in an ef that stumped me for a good week, finally gave in and took it to a local shop and was diagnosed with a bad thermostat ground. Ran beautiful after that.

It's on the lower part of the thermo housing with a 10mm bolt.

 

given that the tach bounces around my guess is the icm is bad....if you have a junkyard nearby it would be best to just pull a used distributor altogether