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04-10-2019, 07:17 PM | #1 |
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Diagnose my Civic no start
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2000 Civic EX. Intermittent no start. Died while driving today. Crank, no start, fuel pump primes, has spark, previously tested no fuel injector "spark" but the main relay has been replaced. No codes. Been fighting this for months New parts: most of the distributor (Sparks fine), plugs, wires, fuel filter, main relay, crank sensor, used ECM. Any ideas? |
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Sounds to me like the fuel pump dying.
Some what simple fix. At lest that's my guess.
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Yeah a failing fuel pump can prime itself, but it can't keep it running after a while.
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There any way to test it short of replacing and hoping it works? The problem is intermittent so that seems unlikely. Every time I work on it the car will run for a couple weeks then die again.
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I'm sure there is a tool out there.
Most common is with super duper scan tool with real time analysis.
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I don't have anything that fancy but I wouldn't feel bad about taking it somewhere if I thought it would work. Will show the necessary information in a car this old that won't start to begin with?
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Could it also be a grounding problem? |
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Removing the engine wire harness currently to inspect for damage. |
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When it's having an issue are there any codes?
To me this actually sounds like a bad ECM but you already tried that. Had an accord fail exactly the same. Did you replace the igniter when you did the dist parts?
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No codes. Igniter, coil, rotor, and cap were all replaced. ECM was a "tested good" eBay unit. It's possible it's failing but seems unlikely it would fail exactly like my original one. I can switch them out again if I need to
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If the car died while driving then that sounds like fuel cut or electrical. The only thing you haven't replaced is the fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator. You could attempt to diagnose those.
It would be nice to understand how this intermittent problem manifests and resolves. Had you had intermittent problems starting it then it died while driving and since then it hasn't started, or is it still intermittent, in that, it had problems starting then recently died while driving and now it is driving, but still having intermittent problems starting? What was it like when it had problems starting? Was it not cranking; or was it cranking, but it was a dry crank; or was it hiccupping/choking like it wanted to start, but was low on air or fuel or the spark wasn't hitting all cylinders evenly? When it died while driving, was it during acceleration or cruising or idling? Did it just cut out and all the lights went to startup or did it lose power and/or bog out then die?
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Previous intermittent no start: crank, no sputter. When it finally did start, it was like nothing had ever happened. Wouldn't even know it had been"broken". Drove fine, parked fine, may or may not start next time I try to drive it. I checked fuel pressure a while back during a no start and it checked fine on fuel pump prime. I don't own a gauge so I never checked any other time. When it died, engine shut down at cruise. Power APPEARED to be constant but if everything blinked off for half a second I probably couldn't have noticed (no radio or headlights etc to indicate power failure). It was running, then off. No sputter or loss in torque/horsepower. Just off. I have not retested fuel injectors for pulse since I replaced the main relay or crank sensor |
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This sounds like it is all electrical. The bitch of it is diagnosing. If you crank the motor with a pulled spark plug and see it sparking, and if you have replaced everything in that category then you know you are good. What do the spark plugs look like? Are they dry or soaked with fuel? If you have fuel delivery then it should hiccup at minimal. I don't know if spraying some fuel in the intake manifold like spraying fuel down a carburetor to help get it going would be worth a try. If it was an individual injector that was the problem then it seems like it would hiccup as well, but you are having a dry crank. If there is a failure on the injector side then it would have to be further upstream and not at individual injectors unless they all got fried or failed at the same time--unlikely. Could you use a multimeter to make sure you have power going to your fuel injectors? If not then work backwards until you find power.
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