ok I finnaly fixed my car today. It has been 2 months since i last had it running. It was almost stolen then imponded by insurance then they thought i tried to steal it so they tried to sue me. Then i got it back and it got broken into agien. but i finnaly got it back together today. i started it up and took it for a test drive. It ran fine for a while then started to sputter. so i figured it was the spark plug wires becouse they were old and used since my accels were stolen by the thiefs. so i got a new set still missed checked firing order several times but i had them in the right order so then i figured maybe it was the gas since it sat for so long. put some injector cleaner then fuel stabelizer but nothing so then i filled my tank with super. No help. at a last ditch efort i replaced my plugs and holy sheep **** it worked. but there was still a slight sputter. I foolishly ignored it. But its back the miss is back. What is cousing my plugs to go bad. the tips are a crystalized white and i know its getting way to hot in there. Any ideas


Modified by crazydude75927 at 5:11 AM 10/24/2003

 

please help me out here

 

might have some blowby. please correct me if im wrong n e one. does your car smoke?

 

sorry but whats blow by? it smokes just a littel not much normally when it starts

 

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Oil getting past the turbo seals/oil in the intake track. It is not a good thing!!

 

well im definitly not turboed but is this something a machine shop has to take care of?

 

I think you need to move somewhere else. Your car is getting stolen too much, that is the problem. Where the heck do you live? I'll make sure never to drive there. Take your car to a Honda dealer for specific drivability concerns, we can tell you some stuff to check, but it can only do so much when we can't see the car.

Excessively white spark plug electrodes indicate a lean mixture. Tan is a good mixture. Your car could be experiencing a lean misfire. Check everything related to fuel delivery.

 

blow by is when your rings are shot, or the end gaps on the rings are lined up causing oil to get into the combustion chamber, but i dont believe that is your problem since your plugs are white (excessivly lean mixture) if you had blow by your plugs would be saturated in oil. many things can leed to sputtering, cloged injections, timing, fuel, distributor, ect. i would check all your fluids, make sure timing is correct and start narrowing down the problem.

 

ok thanx guys but thats not all of the story.
1. got the car had it for 3 months and fried the clutch.
sat for 1 month whill i saved to fix it. Iput in an act clutch fun not
2. 16 and a half hour install couse i got the wrong alignment tool from act.
3. car got broken into and they stole my gauges.
4. a day latter my coil goes out
5. an hour latter after waiting a week to get a coil from a friend for free the nut to the rotor comes out and goes strait through the module.
6. drove it for about a week then i blew a tire and ran off the road killing my suspension
7. all new racing suspension cool and better brakes yay not
8. thanx to an unexperienced shop the brakes sucked and the suspension took two months to put on. the brake pedal under long duration of pressure would fall to the floor air in lines
9. car gets broken into one more time
10. they try to steal my baby
11. insurance sucks
12. get it back and what do you know it gets broken into while waiting for repairs.
13 now this AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

jesus. buy a toyota or something.

 

the saga continues on saturday i blew a head gasket and warped my head.