my friend took his 93 integra to a shop for replacement distributer. now his car is off idle. and not the regular off idle that some of us have but its irratic.
i know this is the wrong forum for integra questions but how far off could this problem be from other civic engines. so any info would help. oh yeah we replace plugs (gaps are good), cap, rotor, and new wires.

 

Is it like it revs up and down?

Why didn't you just bring it back to the shop or ask them?

 

it sits at 100rpm and sometimes its at 800rpm but usually sits at 100rpm. and we dont want to go back to the shop because we ran out of $. we were hopin we could fix it ourselves.

 

ran outta money? if its wasnt like that before but is now, then its their fault. they should fix it for free!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I agree. The shop should fix it for a discount or free. That problem was not there before you took it to the shop.

 

thats a free fix if i ever heard one

 

They will fix it for free. Just take it back, and tell them they need to set the timing and try to get it to idle at least as good as it did when it came in the first time with a bad distributor.

Sounds to me like they swapped it out for a new unit, and didn't set your base timing. Either that, or they did set the base timing, but your car hadn't warmed all the way up before they set it (it must be at fully warmed operating temp to do this). It should take them less than 5 minutes to fix.

If you paid for the repairs and didn't make an ass of yourself somehow... like paying them in pennies or screaming obscenities at them, then there's no way any reasonable shop would make you pay for their help on something that just left their shop that still has the same problem...

Good luck!

 

ya it just sounds like the timing is retarded alot.

but take it back to them to fix. seriously.