Originally Posted by Jafro

Yeah. Even a broken cam will make a weird sound when cranking. It's pretty easy to pop the distributor cap and watch to see if the rotor button spins if you hear that. If this cat is crafty enough to bend a roll bar with a Rhino, I'm sure he'd catch that.

What about the main relay? I've read a bunch of stuff on here for years about other people having the same problem. Like this thread...

https://www.honda-acura.net/forums/s...2main+relay%22

Since the ground on Terminal 2 of the Main Relay always grounds the ECU and supplies it with power, if the main relay is bad, the ECU will never get juice, and won't light the coil. Typically the main relay fails to prime the fuel pump before something like this could ever happen, but isn't it possible that the ECU is never getting power? The ECU fuse would still be fine as long as it's power wire was either not getting juice, or it was disconnected without being shorted out... Maybe probe the ECU for power just to see?

I think testing the distributor harness for continuity will probably get you closer to what's wrong, but testing the ECU for power might save you the trouble of probing stuff and messing with diagrams trying to figure out what goes where if it's not getting juice.