2 weeks ago I smashed in to the deer on the front driver's side, and now my 1998 civic is having all sorts of issues... the power steering was leaking, I replaced the suction tube and the pump, which fixed the leak. The deer broke the head light assembly and harness, replaced both of those. After I did that the driver's side front speaker decided to stop working, the passenger side front speaker is a making an awful sound. I didn't bother trying to fix those. Couple days ago, i drove the car to work and nothing seemed to be wrong with it. On my lunch i went out to start the car and the engine is violently shaking and white smoke is coming from the right side of the engine, and some squealing. I turned it off, popped the hood. I I couldn't see anything wrong with it. I started the engine and it weakly started. Same things were happening, i pressed the gas pedal and it didn't seem to do anything. After about 30 seconds the engine cut out, tried to turn it on again and it cranks but it won't turn over. I had it towed home, checked all the fuses, they were all good. Checked all the fluids and they looked good with good levels. sometimes it sounds like its going to fire out but doesn't. about a month ago the car wasn't starting and found out it wasn't getting spark. Replaced the distributor and battery and it fired right up, been working fine till i hit the deer. I pulled the spark plugs out, i could smell fuel they were black, and pretty worn so i replaced them, still nothing. The fuel pump was just replaced, and i can hear it turning on. I'm not sure what it is...and what caused the engine to shake...any ideas?

 

there are several things you need yo check but for what you said about smoke coming from one side of the car it sounds like your alternator is dead, that being said i would check for spark first and go from there, it should be with a spark tester or do it old school and put a screwdriver inside the spark plug cable and ground it and check for spark

 

lol old school can fry your coil, not a good idea.
use high energy ignition spark tester it's cheap like 15 bucks or less.

http://www.team-integra.net/forum/bl...eshooting.html

 

Well it has spark, and compression and both were fine. I moved the distributor's top adjustment bolt was loose so I played with it and it tried to start more when it was all the way pushed back. Fuel pressure was also fine. Some times there was a little white smoke coming up...

 

TIming belt skipped? Remove the upper timing belt cover and check the timing marks.

 

Well figured it out. The AC compressor seized up, might have ran out of oil, haven't used it in 6 months. I just cut the belt off, and it started right up.