My car broke down this morning, and im pretty 100% damn sure that it has something to do with the ignition. A couple of weeks ago, i was having some problems with it; the same thing it just did this morning.

It just shuts off. I still have all my power, all the lights are fine and it will turn over, but it wont start.

When i was having the same problem with it a couple weeks ago, i took it into my dads garage, took apart the distributor and was checking everything out. I found a wire that lead to the Igniter that had its insulation split. There was no fraying or anything so i just decided to heat shrink it. Well, my car worked fine. absultely no more problems, until this morning.

So, my car has a re-manufactured distributor. and what im wondering, is :

A) is there a Universal Part number for the igniter on my car that i should be looking for? i found one on the web, and i have a catalog number, but i wanna make sure that its the right one.

and B) when i took apart the distributor, i called one of my buddies over to gimme a hand. he had a Type-R that was just imaculate... Perfect. it was his baby. so much freaking money was put into that car. (that he all earned... thats why i dont hate him ) anyways, he did all the work himself so i trust him when he says something or makes a suggestion about my car. i explained to him what happened, and what code the ECU threw (12 or 21 i think it was 12 tho, i havent checked it yet) and he said that what probably happened is that, since i have a remanu'd distributor. who ever put it in probably just took the igniter out of the old one, and put it in the remanu'd one. it went out, i just need to replace it. now, is this a common thing? or is he just blowing smoke up my ass?


thanks guys!

*by far, the longest post, on any message board, by me, ever.

 

Not sure why, but there's been a true assload of people who've had their ignitors go this winter. Given that, I'd say its a good bet.

 

I've also heard of quite a few ignitors going out lately. I'm sure its just a coincidence but yeah. Anywho, some companys do use the parts that are still good in the reman distributors. They just go through and do tests on all the parts and replace the bad ones. But some companys replace all parts that are prone to failure. You should be able to find a old ignitor for pretty cheap. If not, I have one i'll sale

 

well, i found one on a place called Ignition Parts.com or some shit, 92.xx dollars plus shipping. what kinda price would we be talking about? and i drive a 93 integra LS... if that matters. i dont know how specific these things are to the car.
send me a message on aim tomorrow sometime(Green2ndgen).ill pay for next day air if the price is low enough. i need to get my car running again!!!

 

The ignitor has always been a pretty common failure point in Honda distributors. If you want to save 10 bucks before shipping, acuraautomotiveparts.org has it for $82.94.

 

for that price why not spend another 70 or so bucks and buy a whole new distrubutor from honda?

Dave

 

Because that's doubling your repair costs?

 

A distributor is $543.07 at at www.acuraautomotiveparts.org

 

crap..didnt know they were that expensive...oh well.

Dave

 

Yeah i know, would have to give an arm and a leg for it.