OK can't figure this out any help would be great. My Civic died while driving like I lost all power, when I pulled off the road I tried to start it and it just cranked over over and over but never fired up. I got the car towed home. The first thing I checked was the cap and rotor. They didn't look to good so I replaced both. Car still wouldn't start. Just keeps turning over and over. I checked all spark plugs and they are sparking also fuel is working too. Firing order is good can't think of where to go now. I figured with fuel and spark getting to the clynder it would start but I am not even getting a sputter out of the engine. Please let me know what I should do next. ~Thanks

 

A spark plug will spark even with a very weak (dying or dead) ignition coil if you remove it and ground it to the cylinder head. But, under compression, the plug won't fire if the coil is bad.

Use a friend's distributor and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, then your problem is either a faulty coil, a faulty ignitor, or both. Also try swapping a friend's spark plug wires. The problem could be there, but not likely that all 4 would fail at once.

Can you smell fuel if you run the engine with the spark plugs removed? If you can smell fuel, then the injectors are working. If not, try some starting fluid sprayed into the throttle body (spark plugs installed of course), and see if that gets her going. If it does, you've got a fault in the fuel system.

 

Yeah it smells like fuel when I was checking for spark. I will try the ignition coil and sees what happens.

 

Ok well car started. I think there was to much gas in the clynders. Last night I thought of this and so I left the spark plugs out to let the gas evaporate. I can't think of anything eles it could of been because I just put the plugs back in and it started right up. I am just worried that there is some relay that for some reson decided to work but i was getting fuel and spark so I don't think so. Well thanks for the help again hopefully it stays working.