yo my car wont start man, wtf.
its a 91 honda accord, wit 170,000 miles on it
i havent had a tune up in like a year and a half
its mad cold here in philly
this happen before, a few months ago. i went outside to drive and it wouldnt start, so i thought the starter died. then i went in it a week later and it started right up and was fine for months.
i noticed oil was coming up thru the top. like up thru one of the bolts in the manifold and it was oil around the oil cap...and this was like 2 days after it last worked. iono if oil bubbled up and spilled into the spark plug area or what
o yea people keep telling me check the battery, but the radio and the car alarm still work. so i dont think its the battery. is it possible the battery is strong enough to power the radio but not start the car? iono man help!
damn 1 more thing, its cranking but not turning over. if that helps

o yea it was having a wierd problem last week before it stopped starting too, every time i hit the brakes the head lights came on. that happened for like 3 days then it went back to normal for a day or two...then it just wouldnt start.
its like 20 degrees here man, i cant be catching this slow azz bus dudes

 

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It very well could be the battery. The lights and radio will maybe draw a 10A current from your battery while trying to turn the starter over can draw signifigantly more than that. Bring the battery up to your local parts store or Batteries Plus and have then run a load test on it. Basically it will test to see if it has enough power to do the equivalent of starting your car with the lights and other accessories running. If it passes the test then time to look at something else.

If the plugs were bad, they will stay bad. They wont get better just by running the car or letting them sit for a week so I would rule that out.

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Is it continuing to crank strong? Or does it sound/feel like it is spinning slower the longer you keep the key turned?

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Well this would lead me to believe it is an electrical short, maybe in the charging system.....

Check your battery first then we can go from there.....lots of possibilities.....

 

i know exacly what it is, i just fixed my neighbors car who was doing the same thing. the car was cranking fine but not starting, the battery was brand new. I asked her when was the last time she had a tune up, she said about two years ago, i decided to check the spark plugs, all of them were soaked in oil, enough to make me think that there has been a problem for a while. I cleaned the spark plugs off and the car started fine. check the spark plugs, clean them if they are dirty, if they are fouled, replace them. I think that should work. If there is oil on them, its probably a valve problem $$

 

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Is it continuing to crank strong? Or does it sound/feel like it is spinning slower the longer you keep the key turned?</TD></TR></TABLE>
also, does it sound like there is any compression? instead of 'stuttering' a bit, does the cranking sound light or smooth?

 

hey south philly i am northeast philly what . hi how u doing.. listen clean the spark plugs and with a stick or something and a clothes clean the holes where the sparks sit cus u got a lot of oil there man. and try to change the head gasget. and do it fast man got to check the eagels and **** man septa sucks. way to much freezing in here so do that *** soon as posible and checkthe whires if they work proparly or not

go eagles superball here we come

 

typertn , i dont wanna sound like a dumbass...but i kinda dont know how to take out spark plugs and stuff. the people that last did my tune up, put some fancy *** blue wires all around my engine and i tried to pull one off, thinking it would reveal the spark plugs ...but i couldnt pull it off.

does anyone know a tutorial on how to do spark plugs on a honda. it has to be one out there somewhere

 

yo thanks alot alb_honda.....but i'm still trying to figure out how to get to the spark plugs. not sure if i just yank the wires off or not. i wish there was an online tuturial on how to do it. i'ma try all this ****. cause these dudes are trying to charge me $200 to give me a tune up, **** that

 

grab wire base, pull. you will need a spark plug socket, and most likely an extention to get them out.

 

yea its pretty much like desolate says, just pull the part of the plug that goes into the head out, the size do the spark plug is usually a 5/8 and you will need an extension, when you put it back in, to make sure you dont cross thread it, put the plug in the spark plug wire and start it by hand.

 

yeah man just take the wires of go to pep boys buy the shity thing for the sparks and with the extension pull the sparks of man and do what i told u to do with a clothe. buy the way pull the wires on top of the engine not at the side

dude listen go to kills at the end of the main page and check an article some ***** from carolina are talking **** about the eagels man go and check it out and talk some **** to them dude and tell them what we do them if we see them in south philly
if u need more help with the car e-mail me at iliryus@hotmail.com

 

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dude listen go to kills at the end of the main page and check an article some ***** from carolina are talking **** about the eagels man go and check it out and talk some **** to them dude and tell them what we do them if we see them in south philly
if u need more help with the car e-mail me at iliryus@hotmail.com</TD></TR></TABLE>


yo man, i tried to pull the wires off this morning but they wouldnt come off. so i went to the mechanic and he trying tell me its prolly the gas pump , talking about it $300 and ****. iono cause i think my neighbors gon call the police and get my car towed

 

DUDE its on top of the engine where is writen 16 valve u got to aply some force when u pull them off. but first do what we say because 300 dollars its a lot man. listen find out where CORDONE INDUSTY is located i think raising sun ave in north philly and they have parts for cheep man. its a big factory. if u end up doing ur pump go there give them the old one and get a new one for cheep.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by alb_accord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">DUDE its on top of the engine where is writen 16 valve u got to aply some force when u pull them off. but first do what we say because 300 dollars its a lot man. listen find out where CORDONE INDUSTY is located i think raising sun ave in north philly and they have parts for cheep man. its a big factory. if u end up doing ur pump go there give them the old one and get a new one for cheep. </TD></TR></TABLE>

dude u know alot, or at least u seem to . hit up my email @ dawud@wharton.upenn.edu and i'll give u my aim name...so we dont have to rely on these posts. thanks

 

i don't know a lot but i now some of it man. the main things u know. my pc its all fucked man. i'll see what i can do from school but i will sent u the e mail and if u have a yahoo messanger we can talk with that