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I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have newsgroup access, so I'll
give all the information I can.

The car - 1987 Civic, d15a2 (1500cc, carb) engine, 4 speed.

The problem - The car died at an intersection and will not restart. It gets
fuel and spark, but will not fire. The ignition coils tests fine.

If more info is needed, I can get it and post it to this thread.

Any ideas on where to go from here? Thanks.

Either timing is way off, broken timing belt, or no compression due to bad head
gasket.

CGV wrote:

> I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have newsgroup access, so I'll
> give all the information I can.
>
> The car - 1987 Civic, d15a2 (1500cc, carb) engine, 4 speed.
>
> The problem - The car died at an intersection and will not restart. It gets
> fuel and spark, but will not fire. The ignition coils tests fine.
>
> If more info is needed, I can get it and post it to this thread.
>
> Any ideas on where to go from here? Thanks.

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:05:34 GMT, "CGV" <cgv@REMOVETHISswbell.net>
wrote:

>I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have newsgroup access, so I'll
>give all the information I can.
>
>The car - 1987 Civic, d15a2 (1500cc, carb) engine, 4 speed.
>
>The problem - The car died at an intersection and will not restart. It gets
>fuel and spark, but will not fire. The ignition coils tests fine.
>
>If more info is needed, I can get it and post it to this thread.
>
>Any ideas on where to go from here? Thanks.

Remove the oil filler cap and observe the cam while someone turns the
engine over. If the cam's not turning, it will probably be cheaper to
get a new car than fix the engine after a broken timing belt.

I am having a similar no start with my 87 civic 1.3 liter 5 speed and it
turned out to be a bad distributor and now I can't get the timing
right-can anyone help with which plug would be the number 1 position, the
first one on the right or the first one on the left, it was such a pain we
lost track and now can't get it right-HELP!!!

kerikweenb28 wrote:
>
> I am having a similar no start with my 87 civic 1.3 liter 5 speed and it
> turned out to be a bad distributor and now I can't get the timing
> right-can anyone help with which plug would be the number 1 position, the
> first one on the right or the first one on the left, it was such a pain we
> lost track and now can't get it right-HELP!!!


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Plug #1` is closest to the drive belts.

'Curly'

"kerikweenb28" <kerikweenb28@aol.com> wrote in message news:0b40d4ea353ed1bb12777eb51271a4cb@localhost.ta lkaboutautos.com...

> I am having a similar no start with my 87 civic 1.3 liter 5 speed and it
> turned out to be a bad distributor and now I can't get the timing
> right-can anyone help with which plug would be the number 1 position, the
> first one on the right or the first one on the left, it was such a pain we
> lost track and now can't get it right-HELP!!!

Don't know if you can figure this out.

Distributor: 1342 clockwise, 4 points to igniter
Engine: 4321 4 being near distributor

Good luck.