hello, I have a 2004 civic dx manual tranny and I was driving down a street and it suddenly turned off. I was able to get it to turn on by shifting the gear to 3rd only to turn off about 7 seconds later. I had pulled in a parking lot gas station and began working on the car trying to figure everything out. I check the starter, that's good. all four spark plugs are good. and the coils are sparking. it cranks as it wants to start. we tried pushing it and starting it.. it starts but turns off a few seconds later. any ideas? it's raining right now so I can't work on it. but I was thinking either the timing belt might might of skipped a teeth or the crank shaft sensor or the fuel pump or filter. any ideas?

 

Is it out of fuel?

Is the battery dead? yes- probably a bad alternator, no- maybe check battery cables and grounds

Put a code reader on it and post the exact codes it's throwing. Most auto parts stores will read it for free. Some will even rent you one.

 

i think it skipped a couple teeth cause the tensioner springs was loose. but no codes, I replace the cam and crank sensor; coil pack. did a valve job. all the valves were good. i don't undertand. bought a timing belt and all the gakets. put everything back and it turned on for like 10 seconds and it died on me no ruff idles nothing just turned off. alternator and battery brand new. gas is passing... we were going to turn on the car before i put the new fuel injectors in. but we took the old ones out and cleaned them out put them back. the car turned on.. this took us 2weeks. (a lot of research) we put it back 2 days ago

 

Man, this is starting to cost you some $. How about the main fuel relay or ignition switch?