My 1990 Honda Civic 1.5 cranks but will not start. 134k miles. No trouble codes on ECU. ECU does give the 1-blink ?hello? signal. Fuses appear good. Decided to replace starter, which was original. No difference. Battery is good. Attempted to start during jump to our van -- no difference. Main relay clicks as it should (once at key to start, once after check engine light goes off two seconds later, once on cranking). Fuel pump whirring noise can be heard with key to start position (good). With cover to intake removed, could see and smell fuel entering chamber. Starter fluid tried ? no effect. I suspected ignition might be the problem. Distributor cap, rotor, spark plug wires, and plugs were all replaced. Didn?t help. Doesn?t seem to be getting spark. Couldn?t get spark from grounded plug attached to wire. I measured resistance for both primary and secondary in ignition coil -- both were within specs. Wires going to ignition coil are receiving battery voltage. Resistances for TDC and Crank sensors (within distributor) tested good (Codes 4 and 8). Ignition output signal (code 15) also checked out fine. Distributor was removed and rotor shaft does turn freely. You can see rotor turn while cranking engine. So timing belt is not broken. I suspected the igniter (only thing left in distributor) might be the problem, so I replaced this. No help (and $70, non-returnable). Anybody have any idea what might be causing this?
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18 years ago