hopefully you guys can help me out...I was getting on the freeway on 2nd gear at 5500rpms getting ready to shift to 3rd, then my car just dies...no loud clunk or explosion...just a silent death. Got it towed home, checked the oil and coolant levels and both were pretty low. Before it died I made sure to top off the oil and coolant, so i was pretty surprised to see them both low. I'm thinking, it might be the head gasket, but i'm not so certain as to what the symptoms would be, and I was told my car would start even w/ a bad head gasket. So what could the problem be?

oh yeah, motor is a jdm h22, replaced all belts, hoses, pumps, plug wires, plugs and dizzy

ANY HELP IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED THANKS!

 

Does it have spark?

 

did u replace with a "new" dizzy?..when the igniter or coil u usually go bad the car will just die with no warning or symptoms...check and see if your getting spark doesnt sound like a gasket to me.

 

yup, brand new distributor

 

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Does it have spark?

 

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Yeah does it???

 

no spark, BUT the plugs look like the metal part/electrode? just disappeared...just the ceramic part of it left...any ideas? BTW, i drove around for the better part of 3 days w/out the o2 sensor and running rich because of it (had finished swap and o2 sensor plugs were wrong), shot flames out of my header everytime i shifted...would this have caused the plug failure?


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Do they look melted? What mods have you done to the engine?

 

Stock engine, no major mods except intake and exhaust. There's just a small black dot where the metal electrode is s'posed to go, doesn't look melted at all. I replaced the plugs, but still no spark, any ideas...

thanks for the replies

 

Broken t-belt? Blown fuse?

 

take off your distributor. have some crank the and you check the cam if it is rotating. if is not, broken t.b. if it is something is wrong with your distributor assy.

 

k, just checked underhood fuses, 15A FI E/M fuse is blown...what does this fuse do?

update: on me...it was 15cent fuse that caused me all this grief, thanks for your help guys, mucho appreciado


Modified by breakaway at 8:46 PM 10/19/2003

 

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update: on me...it was 15cent fuse that caused me all this grief, thanks for your help guys, mucho appreciado
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LOL, they don't run very well when the ECU dosen't have power. Hopefully it was just a one time thing.

 

yea, hopefully its this sudden heatwave down here that's caused it to blow