Hey...I've explained my problem to so many people now,and everyone is confused. Yesterday afternoon, my car would'nt start. It tried, and tried, and wanted to turn over, but no luck. We replaced the distributor cap, rotor, wires and plugs. It ran fine. It started great this morning. MOre than once. But this afternoon, i went to start it and it acted just like it did yesterday. I unlpugged one of the spark plug wires and it started and got me 6 blocks home. WHen I went to leave my home 30 minutes later, it wouldnt start again. I'm so confused!!! Is there more to it than I know or what?? Please help!!!

 

do a search on main fuel relay or main relay.

 

when it just cranks, do you get spark?

 

hmm thats a tuffy....but it seems like more details would help out a little bit
1)crank get spark?
2)any spark at all?
3)alternator?
4) any lights on?

 

i guess i'm not sure how to tell if it's sparking. My spak plugs are real deep in the engine. She wants to start soooooo bad. I can hear it. The stereo and everything still come on and the dash lights, etc. Who knows??

 

Does it sputter when your driving? Do you notice? If so, try changing out that modulator in the distributor. It may have gone bad.

 

You getting the right plugs?

 

I had the same problem a few months ago,This is what i found The coil which is on the side of your distributer had burned a tiny hole through the insulator causing the sparks from the distributor rotor to ground at the coil
instead of sending current down through the spark plugs.The car would start somedays without a problem and then on other days it would try but wouldn,t then it slowly got worse finally wouldnt start but I could hear the engine trying to start from the little residule sparks the sparkplugs were producing.My first indication was the coil.I checked the coil was fine checked module,had it checked was fine.I was even getting sparks at the
sparkplugs sometimes.I finally discovered the problem as it got dark I had my wife crank over the engine while I had the Hood up broke down on the interstate.In the dark I spotted a hige voltage electrical spark coming from the coil and groundig back to the distributer rotar.So even when I removed the coil and got it checked it still showed it was working properly but as I looked real close at the coil housing i finally found the tiny hole in the coil housing insulator.I replaced the coil and it started perfect.I hope this helps if not I have some other Ideas besides it can only be a fire or fual problem
It certainly isnt aint anything serious its one or the other.

hope this helps

 

my civic did the same till i did what junkyarddog did. try that mabye

 

i would assume coil first...then icm