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Old Nov 10, 2004 | 01:24 PM
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Default Car won't start

Hey everyone. I have a question about my 90 Honda Civic. Yesterday I was in my car, and I had only been driving maybe 5 minutes, and all of the sudden my car died while it was idling. I tried to restart it, but it would just restart for about a second, and then die. I did this a few times, and then it finally wouldn't start at all. I just started looking around to see what the problem is, and I'm not getting any spark to my plugs. I already replaced the spark plugs and the plug wires, but still no spark to the plugs. I grounded the plug outside of the engine, and had someone crank it for me, and I saw one spark at the plug, and then that was it, no more. I retried that a couple of times, and still no spark. I was thinking maybe it was the coil, I took the distributor cap off and had someone crank the engine again. I can see the spark from the coil. So my question is does having a spark at the coil mean the coil is good? Or could it still be bad and just have a weak spark? I don't know a great deal about engines, so I'm going kind of blindly here. Thanks for any help you guys can give me. I'm kind of stuck right now, since this is my only car. So I need to fix it as soon as possible. Thanks again.
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