So I have been enjoying my civic (more or less) since I got it in August. It is a 99 with about 55k on the odometer that I got on ebay. (The seller - CNGDEALER is a punk and will not answer calls and in my opinion misrepresented the car but that is a matter for another post.)
Anyhow, the other day I was driving and suddenly at a stop light I noticed that the engine was missing lightly on one cylinder. By the time I got back to work my CEL was flashing and the miss was a bit more pronounced. So anyhow, I get home and pull the code and find I have a misfire on cylinder 3.
I have started going through things because I do not know the maintenance history on this so I begin with the obvious and pull the distributor cap and rotor. Both of them look like crap so I replace and check the coil to make sure it is okay. It checks out and I got to put the new cap back on and notice that of the 3 screws that hold on the cap - one snapped clean off when I was removing it and another is partially stripped. So I just put the cap on with the two screws to see if my problem is gone. Nope.
I still need to do plugs and wires, though switching the plug from one cylinder to another does not make the code switch to that cylinder.
So now I need to try that and if that is not it move on to injectors. Added to that I still need to figure out what to do about the plate that the distributor bolts on to because now it either needs to be removed and heli-coiled or replaced all together.
If I replace it can I just source one off of an equivalent year civic LX?
Also, can anyone fill me in on how to depressurize the lines so I can swap the injectors? I imagine I just shut off the tank and run it till it dies. Is this right?
Thanks!
-Daniel
Anyhow, the other day I was driving and suddenly at a stop light I noticed that the engine was missing lightly on one cylinder. By the time I got back to work my CEL was flashing and the miss was a bit more pronounced. So anyhow, I get home and pull the code and find I have a misfire on cylinder 3.
I have started going through things because I do not know the maintenance history on this so I begin with the obvious and pull the distributor cap and rotor. Both of them look like crap so I replace and check the coil to make sure it is okay. It checks out and I got to put the new cap back on and notice that of the 3 screws that hold on the cap - one snapped clean off when I was removing it and another is partially stripped. So I just put the cap on with the two screws to see if my problem is gone. Nope.
I still need to do plugs and wires, though switching the plug from one cylinder to another does not make the code switch to that cylinder.
So now I need to try that and if that is not it move on to injectors. Added to that I still need to figure out what to do about the plate that the distributor bolts on to because now it either needs to be removed and heli-coiled or replaced all together.
If I replace it can I just source one off of an equivalent year civic LX?
Also, can anyone fill me in on how to depressurize the lines so I can swap the injectors? I imagine I just shut off the tank and run it till it dies. Is this right?
Thanks!
-Daniel
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