Ok I am a bumb ***. Today I replaced my cap, rotor, spark plugs today. I then decided to pull a spark plug wire one at a time to see if I was getting spark (the car was running fine then!) when I pulled the #3 plug wire and went to put it back the car cut off and would not start. I then tried to wipe off the new plugs and put the old cap and rotor back, jump the car, check power fuse, ecu fuse. so far nothing I cant figure it out. Its a d16z6 in a 94 hb vx. Can anyone help me please.


thanks
Derek

 

bump for my brother, He needs help to fix this thing!!!

 

are you getting spark? sounds like ur ignitor just died on you

 

do you have spark? fuel ? maybe your ignition coil took a dump.

 

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Don't know. Hopfully I will find out tonight. Could the ignitor or coil just have gone out all of a studen like that. If something arc'd would it have done that?

 

Yes, I've heard of ignitiors going just like that... that is without warning, but I can't confirm if an arc in your spark plug wire would cause it to go though. You should at least swap the ignitor with a functioning one to rule it out.

Good luck

 

well I found out I have no spark from my distributor, but I am receiving power to the 2 wire plug going to the distributor. So hopefully tommorrow some place like auto zone will be open so I can go pick up a new distributor.

 

I'm 99% sure it is your coil. I did the same thing a few weeks ago to check compression without first pulling the fuse. When I was done and tried to start it up again, it ran fine for about 30 seconds then died - no spark after that.

After further research, I read that if the spark has no ground to jump to, it will arc inside the coil, potentially frying it. As an EE, it made total sense to me - I used this as an opportunity to use an external coil (cheaper, and arguably better) without even fully diagnosing the problem. Just like magic, the car started up on the first try!

I measured the stock coil with an meter at that time and also found the resistance to be out of spec. Whatever it is in your case, good luck

 

same with me

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sdinteg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm 99% sure it is your coil. I did the same thing a few weeks ago to check compression without first pulling the fuse. When I was done and tried to start it up again, it ran fine for about 30 seconds then died - no spark after that.

After further research, I read that if the spark has no ground to jump to, it will arc inside the coil, potentially frying it. As an EE, it made total sense to me - I used this as an opportunity to use an external coil (cheaper, and arguably better) without even fully diagnosing the problem. Just like magic, the car started up on the first try!

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Good Info. Well long story short I replaced the distributor with a new one from autozone. The car starts and runs fine now. thanks to everyone that posted.