I did open my dizzy for changing its internal ring, but couldn’t open up the rotor. resulted in a destroyed bolt. Then I took it to a mechanic, who managed to remove the rotor bolt, that was destroyed, and changed it for a stainless allen bolt. After I could open the rotor, couldn’t open the internal bolts as they were all so old and hard to turn, therefore, almost being destroyed as well. For the coil bolts, with a saw, I cutted the middle of one bolt, so I could use a screwdriver to turn it, but accidentally did some scratches to the wires the goes in those coil bolts. When I gave up of opening the pieces of the dizzy, I installed it again, sure of the cables order, not so much of the crankshaft positioning, and now my civic will crank but won’t start… How could a dizzy be not installed right since seems to be only one way that it can enter the shaft smoothly?

 

Was the car running before you took it apart?

 

yeah, running perfectly

 

When I take my distributor off any time, I always take a picture of the back and how the 'key' is orientated.

I'm not an expert, so someone can chime in and correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe you have the rotor set at the wrong direction, and thats throwing off the firing order for the plug leads. I don't think a few scratches would affect the wiring, unless you cut through the insulation and its shorting out somewhere.



This is the distributor on my B16A2 and the key on the back can be flipped 180 degrees and still be installed into the car, but the rotor would be flipped as well. It'll fire the wrong cylinders if you know what I mean.

 

I have a GSR and LS OBD1 distributor and both of them will only install one way. There really isnt way to install it 180 degrees off unless i really try to force it in.

 

that was precisely the problem. Rotating the key 180° made it turn the engine on. My mechanic told me the sparks were all wrong, now they will set the ignition point to correct position

 

Nice. Glad you got it fixed.

 

I wouldn't know anything about those, since we never got the GSR here. My distributor is actually off a 96-97 DC2 Type R, so its not the original one to my engine. Its still more or less the same.