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I go see the mechanic Monday morning...
for a general tune up thing but he's a good honda specialist. (really). The
only problem i have with my 91 Accord is that there seem to have an electrical problem related to the fuel pump. First it will often not start on a hot and humid sunny day while parked in the sun. YEAH YEAH I know it's a classical main relay symptom but I changed that and it didn't change a thing. Also lately it just refuses to starts many times after a short drive in the city (in Dallas, always hot), I just dont hear that "click" when I try to start so I know it will never start. Sometimes a few seconds/minutes later i hear it and i'm like "cool, it's gonna start" but after running for 1 second it dies. In those circumstances it seems to me that only time matters, if i try again, no luck, not even that "click". but if I wait 10 minutes, usually no problem it starts fine. I know it's probably not an easy problem and I wont have much time there Monday morning so I hope to get some advices about what could be wrong with that car so I can tell the guy to check this or that first.... It's kinda weird. I know it's electrical. Also we got a huge storm lately and since then the problem is worse (humidity?), I didn't get any problem this summer (but I park in the shade). RAT |
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I would shoot some stating fluid in the intake air filter to verify if
you're getting fuel or not. Next I would suspect the coil and or ignitor or a bad ground. Good luck |
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I had similar symptoms on a '78 Plymouth (back in '83). I had to turn
on the ignition, wait five minutes, and it would start right up. The engine computer was shot. |
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"Rattus The RAT" > wrote in message t... > for a general tune up thing but he's a good honda specialist. (really). The > only problem i have with my 91 Accord is that there seem to have an > electrical problem related to the fuel pump. First it will often not start > on a hot and humid sunny day while parked in the sun. YEAH YEAH I know it's > a classical main relay symptom but I changed that and it didn't change a > thing. Also lately it just refuses to starts many times after a short drive > in the city (in Dallas, always hot), I just dont hear that "click" when I > try to start so I know it will never start. Sometimes a few seconds/minutes > later i hear it and i'm like "cool, it's gonna start" but after running for > 1 second it dies. In those circumstances it seems to me that only time > matters, if i try again, no luck, not even that "click". but if I wait 10 > minutes, usually no problem it starts fine. > > I know it's probably not an easy problem and I wont have much time there > Monday morning so I hope to get some advices about what could be wrong with > that car so I can tell the guy to check this or that first.... It's kinda > weird. I know it's electrical. Also we got a huge storm lately and since > then the problem is worse (humidity?), I didn't get any problem this summer > (but I park in the shade). > > RAT > Besides the other suggestions, it could also be your ignition switch (it is multi pole -- one pole may be intermittent). It'll take some detective work with a voltmeter to check it. Remco |
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> I didn't know a '78 Crapsler even had a computer. :-D
Huge black box tucked into the fender. The optimum place to be crushed in a minor collision. The air intake went right through the box. You'd think that there was a mass air sensor in there, but in actuality it was only sensing the temperature of the air. No crank or cam position sensors, no mass air sensor, no O2 sensor. No user-friendly self-diagnostics (oops, Honda is still doing that part on current models). Really a rudimentary system but better than nothing. |
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"remco" > wrote in
: > > "Rattus The RAT" > > wrote in message >> >> >> I know it's electrical. Also we got a huge storm lately >> and since then the problem is worse (humidity?), I didn't get any >> problem this > summer >> (but I park in the shade). >> >> RAT >> > > it could also be your ignition switch Ditto. -- TeGGeR® The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ www.tegger.com/hondafaq/ |
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