Can someone help me diagnose this problem? My 98 Accord v6 (180k miles) died out all of a sudden while I was driving. Both times after driving about 20 minutes or so and won't restart. I was able to restart it the next morning after it went dead on me after the first time. 2 days later, it went dead again as I was driving home and now couldn't get it to restart.

How do I know if it's a main relay problem? Did take it out but don't know if there's anyting wrong with it. There's some rusty crud build-ups on the circuit board. Is that normal?

Can it be the ignition coil? Because I didn't see any sparks from the wire that goes to the distributor after I tried starting it.

thanks in advance for any input.

 

Are your lights and other devices still working, and just the engine dies on you?

 

yes, lights and everything is working fine. just the engine dies out.

 

Does the starter crank or not? Can you post a picture of the main relay? I'm not sure what you mean by "rusty crud build-ups" - this could just be solder flux and is normal, but kind of hard to tell without seeing it. If it cranks but won't start it could be the relay, coil, ignitor, cap, rotor...

 

Thanks "matt" for the response. I finally got a friend to look at it and it was the coil and the ignition module. He thinks the coil went out first, then it took out the ignition module afterward because the new coil didn't resolve the problem without replacing the module. Thanks!