Well, not actually water, in my driveway.

I had recently comleted a several hundred mile trip in my integra, after which it sat parked for a few days. I got in it and tried to start it today and it would crank and crank, but would not start. It sounds like it is not getting fire. I cleaned the battery terminals, charged the battery fully, checked all fuses, nothing. Plugs, cap, and rotor button have all been replaced less than a month ago with honda parts/denso iridium plugs. I pulled the #1 plug and had the wife crank it and sure enough I have no spark. I am thinking it might be the coil. What to I do next?

Brian

 

Well, I just fixed my car recently and I had NO SPARK. When you have no spark, the culprit is in the distributor. So I don't think replacing the coil or the ignitor or even the whole distributor would help you. You could always check the health of those items by using a multimeter and checking voltages and resistances just in case.

When you turn your car to the "ON" position (without cranking it), can you hear the fuel filter turn on for like 2 seconds? (You should hear it from the rear since the fuel pump is under the rear seats). If you can not, I would check out the Main PGM-FI relay.

You could also check for correct fuel pressure. Unfortunately, diagnosing a car is much more difficult online than if it's in front of you.

For your car to turn on, you need 3 things. Compression, spark, fuel. This should get you started on some things to test. I'm sure others that have experienced similar problems will post soon. There are alot of posts on topics like this, so try searching too.

Have you checked your timing?

 

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and air!

 

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and air!

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I've never had to worry about air getting into those chambers... but good point. Air is good.

 

I have visually inspected the cap and rotor button and can find no evidence of damage. These are one month old Honda parts. How could I diagnose a bad coil or ignitor?

 

I had the same problem after my motor swap, except I wasn't hearing the fuel pump. I had to replace both the ignitor and the coil - bam, problem solved.