this sites user vol died when reddit facebook took over several years ago.
after 34-35 yrs, were getting weird things happening. i like your troubleshooting techniques/skill/videos. and would hope you would keep with it. you can see the unique challenges owning these cars. makes it tat much more special to own and drive around.
what u did makes sense to me. from my experience on these cars, the igniter fails, car doesn’t start. i assume a rebuilt dizzy is a new igniter, bearing and vacuum advance. not sure if a new dizzy is the answer either.
consider testing the tach signal at ur 90si and compare.
back in the factory line days, we’d use 10x jewelers glasses in the engineering lab to look over the components and solder joints. you’d be amazed what information that gives you. swapping the clusters should have solved it
consider searching other 80’s acura and honda models for jumpy or dead tac. someone’s had this and solved it. i don’t recall this posted before on this site
i hope you stay with it. ur methods r solid, i’d hate to loose ur talent supporting this sites repair database
When I first bought this car, this website was not functional for over 6 months. It just plain didn't work. FB is useless, as archiving data is impossible, it's just a flash in the pan then gone forever.
I would have loved to purchase a brand new distributor, but nobody fucking makes them. Honda sold over 700,000 3g civics here in the states, yet NOBODY sells rebuild distributors. Mind boggling. All are just send in yours to be rebuilt.
That said, glad I didn't, as even replacing the entire distributor did not fix the problem.
The only other thing I can think of is the coil, so I ordered a NOS coil. I do NOT have continuity across my coil, on the blue signal wire. I'm not sure if there is supposed to be, but idk what else to do.