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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: West of Seattle
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'88 Civic warm start problem?
My daily driver (read:beater) has a mysterious intermittent warm start problem. Cold mornings, I come out and start the car first go with no problems, ever. If it's hot -- I've been out driving for half an hour, I stop for lunch, gas, whatever -- it starts right up. But if I'm just running around town, and it isn't getting up to temperature, but it isn't cold, it won't start. Turns over, but doesn't start.
Some miscellaneous history, and the symptoms:
-The car is an '88 Honda Civic Coupe, with an '88 Civic CRX engine installed. This problem existed both before and after engine swap. The engine is 1.5L, fuel injected.
-Since the swap, the temperature gauge on the dash has not operated. The radiator fan, which is cycled based on coolant temperature, however, still cycles.
-Sometimes, when it won't start, I can smell fuel -- as if running very very rich, or simply not burning any fuel (thus the ignition replacements).
-The engine turns over for about 10 seconds, then the check engine light comes on, with error code "fuel injectors," leading me to believe it's flooding.
-Sometimes, when driving, the check engine light reports that the O2 sensor is bad. There is no pattern, no condition, no series of events leading to this warning light -- it just goes, sometimes, randomly. The O2 sensor was replaced approx 2 months ago; no change in problem.
-About 4 months ago, replaced most ignition bits -- plugs (Bosch P-4's), wires, distributor, and rotor.
I know this isn't usually a honda-friendly forum, but I'm at wit's end, and more than willing to accept ridicule for driving a rice-burner in hopes of finding some help. Does anybody know where to find a high-quality shop manual for these cars? Maybe detailed (and accurate, unlike the ones in the Chiltons and Haynes) wiring diagrams, preferably with descriptions of the locations of the parts they're describing? Can anyone maybe point me to a Honda forum?
TIA,
Dan
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