I just picked up a 1995 del sol 1.6 sohc yesturday and it was stalling out when i stopped at the lights.. went to the auto zone and picked up a new cap and rotor plugs and wires... put them on last night and now it won't start..WTF!! I checked the firing order, put the old stuff back on. minus the plugs and wires -- made sure all the connections were tight about 5 times and now i'm going nuts!! it ran fine except for a little stalling.. Its my first Honda and to do a little tune up and this??? please give me a little help

 

Check the firing order on the plugs one more time. I've replaced many and the last time I did it the wires were crossed and I didn't notice.


Did you disconnect anything else when you removed the cap and rotor?

 

checked them again and I did unplug a few wires to get the cap off but checked them again and everything seems ok-- checked firing order again and its good 1-4-3-2 --

 

another thing is I have no spark outta the coil.... nothing at all -- had my father in-law hold on to a screwdriver while cranking it and he didn't get jolted

 

Replace the coil.

Right after cleaning up the connections under the cap is when my coil died, started up and idled fine for 5 sec. before it died.

If you want to make sure I could give you the resistance to check for on the coil.

 

The firing order is 1-3-4-2.

 

if you are facing the front of the distributor (looking from side of motor)...its


34
12


*edit...nvm...I see you are SOHC....1342 is right

 

thanks for all the replies.. My buddy brought over a used distributer and we replaced the coil and it started right up! it runs great now!

 

Nicely done, glad it was just the coil