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Old 02-01-2004 | 05:15 PM
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after an one hour run on the highway my car lost spark at the toll booth i let it sit for 1 minute and it started up but wouldnt go over 3000 rpm before all this happened the tach was going crazy( needle bouncing up & down) what could this be 88 civic single cam mpfi

^^ my tach seriously looks like this going down the road all connections are tight and there is no misfire
Old 02-01-2004 | 06:00 PM
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coil proberly. maby ignitor but when tht goes out it usully never sarts back up.
Old 02-01-2004 | 06:50 PM
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what is the igniter what does it look like
Old 02-02-2004 | 03:24 PM
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Sounds like you computer goes into some kind of limp mode my car did that once and the other time it was a cyl-pos wire that desoldered it self from the distributor. As far as the ignitor goes i thinks its just as expensive as a new distributor.
Old 02-02-2004 | 04:27 PM
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i have few distributors dual point and a 96 y8 distributor can i rig something
Old 02-02-2004 | 07:47 PM
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check your ignitor
Old 02-03-2004 | 05:34 PM
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Definatly ignitor, mine was doing the same thing about 2 weeks ago, popped in a new one, and she was good to go.

Old 02-03-2004 | 07:03 PM
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my dizzy did the same thing in my 91 accord. check it as well
Old 02-03-2004 | 07:15 PM
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yeah but what does the ignitor look like
Old 02-04-2004 | 12:28 AM
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ignitor looks like little chip type thing usually found INSIDE and adjacent to the coil. usually if the ignitor goes it will never start back up, i would try the coil first, its cheaper and also the coil is more likely to go out.

you might want to just carefully check the connections inside the dist. i once had a tiny wire that was loose and i ended up with a new coil,ignitor,cap and rotor before i found out a freaking wire was loose.

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