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my honda, which is a great car, has been a little sick. about every so
often it doesent want to start right away. i had a mechanic friend of
mine try to fix it, but his sollution did not work, we replaced the
distributer, spark plugs, plug wires, and did a fule pressure test. and
then he found out is was the control unit that also works as the fule
pump relay. so i replaced the control relay. and still the problem is
there! what do i do?

"large member" <mighty_mouse42@msn.com> wrote in
news:1126926967.997424.218490@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:

> my honda, which is a great car, has been a little sick. about every so
> often it doesent want to start right away.



"doesent want to start right away"? What exactly does this mean?

More detail please. Also please spell, capitalize, and punctuate correctly
so that you are more legible to those attempting to help you.



> i had a mechanic friend of
> mine try to fix it, but his sollution did not work, we replaced the
> distributer, spark plugs, plug wires, and did a fule pressure test. and
> then he found out is was the control unit that also works as the fule
> pump relay. so i replaced the control relay. and still the problem is
> there! what do i do?


More detail on problem, please.


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TeGGeR® wrote:
> "large member" <mighty_mouse42@msn.com> wrote in
> news:1126926967.997424.218490@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
>
>
>>my honda, which is a great car, has been a little sick. about every so
>>often it doesent want to start right away.
>
>
>
>
> "doesent want to start right away"? What exactly does this mean?
>
> More detail please. Also please spell, capitalize, and punctuate correctly
> so that you are more legible to those attempting to help you.
>
>
>
>
>>i had a mechanic friend of
>>mine try to fix it, but his sollution did not work, we replaced the
>>distributer, spark plugs, plug wires, and did a fule pressure test. and
>>then he found out is was the control unit that also works as the fule
>>pump relay. so i replaced the control relay. and still the problem is
>>there! what do i do?
>
>
>
> More detail on problem, please.
>
>
pulling any codes from the ecu might help too!

Could be your Main Relay.

Read this:

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/start...html#mainrelay

too to fix dump it asap!!!!!!!!!
large member wrote:
> my honda, which is a great car, has been a little sick. about every so
> often it doesent want to start right away. i had a mechanic friend of
> mine try to fix it, but his sollution did not work, we replaced the
> distributer, spark plugs, plug wires, and did a fule pressure test. and
> then he found out is was the control unit that also works as the fule
> pump relay. so i replaced the control relay. and still the problem is
> there! what do i do?

My car has same problem. All the part you replaced I wanted to replace
but
I wouldn't think it's going to work. I think the starting problem is a
design fault.
Sometimes I have to wait over hr to get start it when the car is
overheated.
However, it did start all the time. I just have be patient. I've no
idea what
the problem is. I did the main relay thing but the problem is still
there.
I'm just being patient....

Sure sounds like the main relay. Did you repair it or replace it? If
repaired the cracked solder joint was not fixed. I resolder all of my
joints since the one cracked connection was not obvious but I did
eventually find it. The resolder was the easy part. The hard part
was the removal and installation to its location and my position while
removing it.

Hope this helps!




On 17 Sep 2005 01:41:01 -0700, mmdir2005@yahoo.com wrote:

>
> My car has same problem. All the part you replaced I wanted to replace
>but
>I wouldn't think it's going to work. I think the starting problem is a
>design fault.
>Sometimes I have to wait over hr to get start it when the car is
>overheated.
>However, it did start all the time. I just have be patient. I've no
>idea what
>the problem is. I did the main relay thing but the problem is still
>there.
>I'm just being patient....

large member wrote:
>
> my honda, which is a great car, has been a little sick. about every so
> often it doesent want to start right away. i had a mechanic friend of
> mine try to fix it, but his sollution did not work, we replaced the
> distributer, spark plugs, plug wires, and did a fule pressure test. and
> then he found out is was the control unit that also works as the fule
> pump relay. so i replaced the control relay. and still the problem is
> there! what do i do?

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If it only does it after sitting overnight, or longer, it's probably
flooding, due to a leaky injector. Pressure in the rail is slowly bled
off into the engine and it just won't start. The fix is in the owner's
manual. Hold the pedal to the floor for up to 15 seconds while cranking.
If is starts with a big puff of smoke and sputters, that was it.

Run a can of Techron injector cleaner thru it and it may never happen
again. I ran two tanks of gasohol thru it and it never did it a second
time ('95 Odyssey)
'Curly'

Resolding and replacing main relay is not even the problem. I did that
and I even bought
another main relay. No solution.