my car hella rattles and **** i dunno why

91 accord lx 4dr automatic

i wanna take off the dist cap

the rotor wouldent come off, i pull and pull, get a screwdriver

BREAK THE ROTOR! ****!!

buy a enw rotor, put it back together, CAR WONT START, has everything, but dosrnt have SPARK, no JUICE
!!!

i have directions on with a volt meter, how to check if ur ignitor and coil are stillworking and they BOTH ARE!

im thinking some kinna fuse? BUT I CHECKED ALL KNOWN FUSES, are there any fuses on the ECU? WHAT could possibly be the problem??!!!!!!

thanks in advance!

 

The shaking is most likely a bad rear motor mount.

As for not starting, did you get the correct dist cap (if you got a new one)? Check your fuses too.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by stealthj &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">my car hella rattles and **** i dunno why

91 accord lx 4dr automatic

i wanna take off the dist cap

the rotor wouldent come off, i pull and pull, get a screwdriver

BREAK THE ROTOR! ****!!

buy a enw rotor, put it back together, CAR WONT START, has everything, but dosrnt have SPARK, no JUICE
!!!

i have directions on with a volt meter, how to check if ur ignitor and coil are stillworking and they BOTH ARE!

im thinking some kinna fuse? BUT I CHECKED ALL KNOWN FUSES, are there any fuses on the ECU? WHAT could possibly be the problem??!!!!!!

thanks in advance!
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umm, you took off the distributor cap? and broke the rotor?

when you replaced it, was it at the proper firing order?? i dont know about a 91, but i think a 5th gen is 1342 firing order if you dont know how to turn the rotor, easy way is to have 1 friend watch the rotor, while someone inside turns the ignition and crank once and stop until it reaches the 1... make sure wires & cap is properly placed back at its original place. and fire it up..

 

Check your timing and the distrubutor. If the distrubutor is the only you've touched, then the problem is your distrubutor.

 

Had the same basic problem except I was driving down the road and it just cut off. No fire at all. Ended up having to replace the entire distributor.

 

the onyl thing i replaced was the rotor, cuz i broke it

but there is no juice, no spark, thats my problem, and i checked all the fuses that ive seen... ahhh how am i gonna get to school....cant seem to keep my cars runing for more than 2 weeks at a time

 

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but there is no juice, no spark, thats my problem, and i checked all the fuses that ive seen... ahhh how am i gonna get to school....cant seem to keep my cars runing for more than 2 weeks at a time</TD></TR></TABLE>

like i said above, Is it at the proper firing order??? 1-3-4-2

 

yes we neevr touched that, i didnt **** with it, but i double checked

but there is no spark at all anyay, is there some kinna fuse in between the distr and the ECU?

 

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but there is no spark at all anyay, is there some kinna fuse in between the distr and the ECU?</TD></TR></TABLE>

it doesnt need to be touched... when you broke the rotor off, it might of spun over, take off the dizzy cap, make sure its pointing towards #1, if thats correct look under the cap, did you pull off any of the connection wiring while you were yanking at it? only fuses are the ones under your hood & the one under the steering column...

but to be honest, the same thing happened to my friends car just the other day, cause he replaced the distributor o ring, because he had a similar leak i had and i told him to replace it... i guess he spun the dizzy just a little when he was removing/installing and his car had the exact symptoms as yours...

but if you want it tested, call autozone... i think they have a tester to tell you if its working properly...

 

check the connectors on the outside of the dizzy, they may have come apart.

 

if the firin order was messed, there would still be spark,. the car would just backfire or something, but you still HAVE spark....i got no spark.....but ill try to test it

 

was the car running before? did you check if it was the timing belt?
if your not getting a spark its inside the ignition system somewhere, i say recheck the coil and ingition.

 

yeah it was running perfect...

but yeah i checked the coil and ignitor but i wasnt 100% sure about the ignitor i will recheck that

 

i think i found the source...or no i didnt, but i rechecked the ignitor, maybe the firts time i was crazzy, but therre is no power going to the ignitor, so now i have to work from there....

 

what do i do ffrom here? im not really a mechanic i dunno what to check

 

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was this the reason you took the cap off in the first place?

Look at the rotor and see if there are scores in the contact point from contacting the little metal parts on the distributor cap.

The shaft holding the rotor on inside the distributor may be bent.

I have a spare distributor if you want to buy it.

 

yeah i just wanted to do a checkup on the car

but now the ignitor has power so i dont really know what is wrong with my car....

how much for your distributor?

 

same thing happen to me last week
car just starting shaking and making a loud noise
my vavle cover gasket blew and oil flooded my plugs.
if u think its the distribution, get it from this place in canada, only $150 for a 91 oem distributor, thats where i got mine.
i forget the place but if u really interested i'll find out for u

 

i bought a brand new distributor including rotor and cap for 175 &gt;

but now it starts and runs perfect

thanks for the help and time guys

 

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yea this place had a ad on here, so i brought it off them. distributor cap rotor and all internal parts -$150 plus yr warranty . but $25 more aint bad