New to forums so forgive me if this isn't in the right spot.

2001 Honda Accord 2.3L Hitachi distributor. Crank no start.

I bought car with bad ECU. I installed eBay ecu and had a locksmith program the security and the dealer programmed the rest.

It has a new Dizzy on it. Apparently mechanics have been chasing this problem for a while. I'm here because I'm stuck.

I had spark at the coil but ohmed it anyway and it tested bad so I replaced it. strange because the dizzy is new. now I have a stronger spark at the coil...Shocked the **** out of my buddy HEHE. If I put a plug in a wire and put one in directly on the coil and ground the plug strong spark. when I put the cap on no spark same spark. even tried a 12 gauge wire stuck in the outside of the cap to ground no spark.

It had a new cap on it. I put another new cap on it no change. both caps have the spring in tact. I ran a wire from the coil to the spring in the cap and it fires through the cap. put it on and no spark.

It seems so simple it's making me crazy. I attached pics. I have videos of the tests but I don't think the forum allows video uploads.

 

Try putting the rotor on leaving the cap off, manually turn the engine to TDC for cylinder 1, mark a line on the distributor housing outside - the center point of the rotor position and also make a mark line on the outside of the cap where the electrode pin is for the #1 spark plug wire then put the cap on and see how well they line up? Could be your distributor needs to be clocked better to line up both lines and try to get spark then or maybe have the wrong distributor?

 

Figured it out. It ended up being the rotor bug. Someone cleaned the protective coating off of the tip and the spark was shooting in the cap but not were it should go. $10 bug fixed it...