5th Gen Civic, start and idle problems

shakenbake

Hello there!

I've been having intermittent start problems with my civic for a while now and was wondering what to do. Since I got it its always had this problem, now more prevalent than before. My distributer packed it in a few months ago and it seemed fine after I got it replaced (2nd hand), but now its back with a vengance. I found this link that seems to point elsewhere as it described the fault perfectly. Getting petrol is a complete bastard these days

http://www.markl.f9.co.uk/howto/electrical/main-relay/main-relay.htm

However along with this intermittent starting issue, its also starting to 'chug' a little when idling. It feels like its about to cut but doesn't. I keep the revs a little higher and its fine. Petrol pump needs replacing ?

Also, my car is positively sounding like a disel these days! Whats the craic with that?

Thanks!

Ratchet

1)pump relay gives only problems when engine is warm and it could be very quickly repaired .
2)forget about new pump


maybe car needs service and good look over the HT leads, dist cup etc. Make sure you have oil as engine will get noisy

also it is possible to get reading from car's ECU just incase some other sensor gives you problems. Second hand distributors don’t last very long, specially if equipped with the same igniter module. Even if you change the module you still have to replace distributor bearing.

Ratchet

so, did you have look at relay?