Just changed the ignitor on my car

[krisfnbz 10+ year member]

And I must tell you, it was a PITA seriously. I hate working on cars sometimes. Fuvk.

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[miker 5,000+ posts]

LOl... A pain in the as is trying to find the fuel filter on my car..

WHERE the **** is it???????????

 

[krisfnbz 10+ year member]

what car do you have?

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

LOl... A pain in the as is trying to find the fuel filter on my car..
WHERE the **** is it???????????

Our good truck doesn't have a fuel filter.

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

Our good truck doesn't have a fuel filter.

Haha.. well it supposedly has one, but.. But I mean why can't I find it??

 

[peas247 10+ year member]

might be in the frame rail

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

I like working on my car and doing big projects. Right now I'm converting my el camino from an automatic to a 5-speed

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Does it drive any better?

 

[krisfnbz 10+ year member]

SO heres the story.

I stripped my valve cover bolt like 6 months ago, so on the front left side it has been leaking for a while, nothing too drastic just over time I lose oil. It was a pain in the *** to find at the junkyard to replace...so I just procrasinated.

I just got the part from a honda dealership for like 2 bucks, and took the old one out and put the new one in. It took like 10 mins and that was a good relief.

The 2nd problem was my ignitor was starting to go bad because sometimes the car wouldnt crank over. (Probably 1 out of 30)....but it would always eventually start. Mind you the car has about 88k on the motor, and ive had it since 83 and it was a one owener. So most of the tune up shit was just recently done..by myself... spark plus...wires, rotor cap etc... all that shit.

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I put the new ignitor in after figuring out how to get to it. It was a pain but really not too difficult. I wired the shit up(With grounding the unit at the bottom so it wouldnt move inside its little chamber thing), and put everything back together and it wouldnt crank over.

So Im like wtf??? I went to recheck my connections.(Seemed to be fine), so I was thinking maybe a bad part from honda???

So I take it out and put the stock one in. Fires up immediately. so im like okay...let me try and install the new one again really slow.

I install the new one (WITHOUT GROUNDING THE UNIT-- SO IT CAN MOVE IN THE AREA WHERE IT IS) put everything back together and it fires up(and it fired up much better than ever)

so Im like okay....I GROUND IT IN....AND PUT EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER.

GO TO FIRE IT UP....WONT START AGAIN. so I come to the conclusion that this new OEM honda piece just doesnt like to be grounded. I leave it ungrounded and everything seems to be fine.

Wrong.

I was putting into the shopping center to get food and my car just dies in the middle of driving. No noises just shuts off. Im like gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd. LORD.

eventually it would start and drive for 1 min and then shutoff. So I said **** it, installed the stock one(which still works pretty good) and drove home.

Now I have to figure out what the **** is going on with this new ignitor. Its a FREAKIN HONDA PART!