93 Integra won't start. PLEASE HELP!!!!

emerfam

New Member
All right guys I need a little help. I bought a 93 integra to use as a high mpg beater and then fix up for my son in a couple of years. I bought one and drove it home. After driving for about an hour and a half the car stalled and died. I pushed it off the road and tried to start it. It turns over but never fires. After waiting a day I tried again and still the same thing. I eventually towed it home and started working. I have replaced plugs, plug wires, dizzy cap and rotor, ignition coil, and ignitor. The main relay works, i can hear the fuel pump working and I have fuel all the way up to the fuel rail. I have double checked the timing using the marks on the crank shaft and the dizzy. When I check the ecu, I get no codes but the CEL comes on and stays on until I remove the jumper. I have tried spraying starter fluid straight into the plug holes and I still get nothing. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
 

imcnblu

Resident G2 Guru of C-I
since you've replaced all that, and it still doesn't start, it leads me to believe that the Ignition Control Module (ICM) has gone out.

A few weeks ago, the coil AND ICM went out on mine. I found it cheaper to just buy a whole new distributor, vs buying parts separately and hoping for the best. Hope that helps.

The ICM is also in the distributor. I'd say buy a whole new distributor, but you've already bought just about all the major components. Had you bought a new distributor, you would have been treated to a new cap/rotor, etc. as well as the following parts that are INSIDE the distributor:
Coil
ICM
Crank Position Sensor (CPS)

replace the ICM and you SHOULD be good to go.
 

cafoster

New Member
icheck for spark,if no spark replace dist. buy a new rotor and cap to.
 


emerfam

New Member
I have spark but it is orange in color and not very strong. I was thinking about getting a new dizzy but I had also heard that it could be the ecu. Don't want to have to replace both.
 

madholmes

New Member
Help Me

Someone please help me. I am new on here and can't figure out how to post. LOL Thanks, Matt
 

imcnblu

Resident G2 Guru of C-I
madholmes said:
Someone please help me. I am new on here and can't figure out how to post. LOL Thanks, Matt
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you seem to be doing fine.

to the original poster, back to the topic at hand,
as far as it being the ECU, its a slim chance.

Since you've already replaced so much, I still recommend the distributor, but it would be almost a waste to buy the whole thing now, since you've replaced everything critical to the distributor except the ICM and the Crank Position Sensor. Crank Position Sensor would likely just throw a CEL, but the ICM will prevent the car from starting.

Is it getting spark at all? or is it just extremely weak spark? a few more pieces to this puzzle, and I should be able to solve it for you.
 


emerfam

New Member
I consistently get spark from all four plugs but the spark is always orange in color and randomly it seems weak. According to the Haynes manual the ICM is the ignitor so I have replaced it already. Any other suggestions?
 
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newkid

New Member
this might sound weird but replace the battery. somthin like this happened to my uncle.
 

emerfam

New Member
The battery was replaced right before it died. I haven't put in a new dizzy yet. Waiting to get paid this week and then trying that.
 

rpalma001

New Member
ok i saw this post and im looking at a similar problem. Were you all able to findout the problem and if so i would like to know i have done everything as far as rebuilding the distributer and even borrowed my brothers dizzy and put mine on his mine fired his car right up his didnt on mine put mine back and same thing no spark is this common?
 
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