honda civic lsi dont start?
 

i've got a honda civic lsi it's not been started for a few months and now it wont start i've changed the battery and got full tank of petrol the starter motor runners but it just wont start can any one tell me what i should check and replace to try get it running cheers

Two things usually prevent a car from starting:































Lack of fuel - either a bad fuel pump, clogged fuel filter or defective injector controller. Check your fuses (fuel pump, ignition, etc).































Lack of 'spark'. Pull a plug wire and see if you can get it to spark to a grounded part of the engine. Not sure if your car has a separate distributor and coil, but if it does, pull the cap and look for corrosion on the cap terminals and rotor. Make sure your coil wire is firmly attached.































In some cases, if you've messed around with the air ducting you might not intake air hoses hooked back up - an engine will not 'fire' if the airflow sensor is defective or is unhooked.















Or it will fire up and immediately die.

I operate a auto shop and of cource get no-start jobs all the time. I can tell you the first things we look for are spark, fuel and compression. Most likely you can rule out compression as we know the engine ran when you last parked it so everything needed such as valves or rings to ensure a good compression should still be good! The next is to check fuel. A simple easy way is to pull out one of the spark plugs after you have cranked it several times and look for a wet-with-fuel-plug. Smell the plug also if it smells as if gasoline is on it. If you are getting fuel then the last to check is spark. Pull the spark plug wire off the spark plug and stick a screwdriver into the end of the plug wire, hold the metal part of the screwdriver just away from metal on the engine so as to make a small gap for the spark to jump across while someone cranks the engine. If you are getting both fuel and spark I have found the plugs to foul from the old gas after sitting. You cannot see the bad on the plug but changing plugs on an engine which has sat so long sure helps or cures a nonstarting engine w/bad gas sometimes. This engine also has a bad habit of the distributor going bad but you would have no spark in a bad-distributor case....































Hope this helps.....!