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Old 09 Jan 2006, 02:10 pm
wonderingsoul
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Default 92 honda accord

I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts off.I can be
driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after getting warmed
up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start back up until I
let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I have been told
alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for sure on any of
those. Does anybody have any suggestions?

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Old 09 Jan 2006, 02:27 pm
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wonderingsoul <mspence312@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts off.I can be
> driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after getting warmed
> up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start back up until I
> let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I have been told
> alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for sure on any of
> those. Does anybody have any suggestions?


This is the classic symptom of famous cold solder joint on the main relay
problem.

Andrew

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Old 09 Jan 2006, 03:08 pm
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"wonderingsoul" <mspence312@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:3dce9a39adc2e89133e2c38d304c9b9d@localhost.ta lkaboutautos.com:

> I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts off.I can be
> driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after getting warmed
> up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start back up until I
> let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I have been told
> alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for sure on any of
> those. Does anybody have any suggestions?
>





Sounds like the igniter.

The Main Relay does not cause this problem.

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Old 09 Jan 2006, 03:15 pm
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From my reading and experience, this is the classic symptom
of a bad ignition coil. As they age and and near death, they
get very persnickety with temperature cycles, like the one
you describe below.

There are a few checks you can do of the coil. See
www.autozone.com 's free online manuals for your car.

Igniters tend to fail all or nothing.

Main relays don't cause shutdown while running.

www.tegger.com/hondafaq also has some checks you can do of
the coil, under running/starting problems. Or word search
for "coil."


"wonderingsoul" <mspence312@yahoo.com> wrote
> I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts

off.I can be
> driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after

getting warmed
> up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start

back up until I
> let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I

have been told
> alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for

sure on any of
> those. Does anybody have any suggestions?
>



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Old 09 Jan 2006, 03:51 pm
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Elle <honda.lioness@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From my reading and experience, this is the classic symptom
> of a bad ignition coil. As they age and and near death, they
> get very persnickety with temperature cycles, like the one
> you describe below.
>
> There are a few checks you can do of the coil. See
> www.autozone.com 's free online manuals for your car.
>
> Igniters tend to fail all or nothing.
>
> Main relays don't cause shutdown while running.


The main relay on my 1993 Accord sure did cause my car to
stop running. I was typically able to restart it in a few
attempts after coasting to the side of the road. The problem
went away after my mechanic resoldered the main relay. The
problem more commonly manifested itself as the inablilty to
start the hot car after stopping for a few minutes.

Andrew


> www.tegger.com/hondafaq also has some checks you can do of
> the coil, under running/starting problems. Or word search
> for "coil."


> "wonderingsoul" <mspence312@yahoo.com> wrote
>> I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts

> off.I can be
>> driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after

> getting warmed
>> up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start

> back up until I
>> let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I

> have been told
>> alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for

> sure on any of
>> those. Does anybody have any suggestions?
>>




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Old 09 Jan 2006, 07:40 pm
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"Andrew" <andrew@nats.edu> wrote
> Elle <honda.lioness@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > From my reading and experience, this is the classic

symptom
> > of a bad ignition coil. As they age and and near death,

they
> > get very persnickety with temperature cycles, like the

one
> > you describe below.
> >
> > There are a few checks you can do of the coil. See
> > www.autozone.com 's free online manuals for your car.
> >
> > Igniters tend to fail all or nothing.
> >
> > Main relays don't cause shutdown while running.

>
> The main relay on my 1993 Accord sure did cause my car to
> stop running. I was typically able to restart it in a few
> attempts after coasting to the side of the road. The

problem
> went away after my mechanic resoldered the main relay. The
> problem more commonly manifested itself as the inablilty

to
> start the hot car after stopping for a few minutes.


Noted, though my 91 Civic's main relay never failed while I
drove the car. For a few months, I put up with the
"non-start after driving a hot car and stopping for a few
minutes" deal. A new main relay fixed it right up. (Though
re-soldering is said to be just as effective.)

Tegger's site (which often, but not always, denotes some
group consensus) notes: "Once the car does start and run,
the relay seems to be able to maintain the connection even
with cracked solder, and keep the car running. I'm not sure
why."

Yours may have been a perfectly probablistic exception,
though.


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Old 10 Jan 2006, 09:04 am
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"Elle" <honda.lioness@earthlink.net> wrote in
news:ivzwf.7280$M%4.3735@newsread3.news.atl.earthl ink.net:

> From my reading and experience, this is the classic symptom
> of a bad ignition coil. As they age and and near death, they
> get very persnickety with temperature cycles, like the one
> you describe below.



Could be the coil too.

How to check:
http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/startproblems.html#bad

A "dwell meter" is also known as an "engine analyzer". Availaible
everywhere.



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Old 10 Jan 2006, 09:05 am
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Andrew <andrew@nats.edu> wrote in news:dpuide$soc$1@news-int.gatech.edu:

> Elle <honda.lioness@earthlink.net> wrote:


>> Main relays don't cause shutdown while running.
>>
>>

>
> The main relay on my 1993 Accord sure did cause my car to
> stop running. I was typically able to restart it in a few
> attempts after coasting to the side of the road. The problem
> went away after my mechanic resoldered the main relay. The
> problem more commonly manifested itself as the inablilty to
> start the hot car after stopping for a few minutes.




That's decidedly rare. Usually keeps working once the car's running.


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Old 10 Jan 2006, 11:21 am
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"TeGGeR®" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote
> Could be the coil too.
>
> How to check:
> http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/startproblems.html#bad
>
> A "dwell meter" is also known as an "engine analyzer".

Availaible
> everywhere.


AFAIC, that helps. Said "engine analyzer" is available at
Autozone for a digital version, $80. Available at Ebay,
bidding is at $10 at the moment for a Sears Craftsman
(older?) version that clearly has "dwell" noted on its dial
knob. No idea what the quality of either of these is, but if
the guts of this isn't much more sophisticated than a
digital multimeter, I figure one can't go too wrong with a
cheap engine analyzer. Looks like fun, too...


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Old 10 Jan 2006, 11:29 am
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On 1/9/06 1:10 PM, in article
3dce9a39adc2e89133e2c38d304c9b9d@loc...o utautos.com,
"wonderingsoul" <mspence312@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have a 1992 Honda Accord and when it gets warm it cuts off.I can be
> driving just fine down the road and it just cuts off after getting warmed
> up of after about 8 miles or so.After that it won't start back up until I
> let it sit for awhile ( and hour or so) and cool down I have been told
> alot of things that it could be but no one is exactly for sure on any of
> those. Does anybody have any suggestions?
>


This is exactly the symptom my '96 Odyssey exhibited when the ignition
switch went bad.

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