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03-08-2010, 10:08 PM
This is my wife's 70-some year-old aunt's car. KA24DE with 110K miles. I've been servicing it for at least ten years- no problems. Well, I did replace the distributor 9/'08.
Tonight she brought it to me complaining of it running rough. I listened to it and noted it was skipping. Checking for the skip, I pulled the plug wires off one by one to determine which cylinder (#2 fwiw) was misfiring. So far so good, right?
Before I got any further along, wifey comes out and I'm showing her what I've done- repeating the process of pulling plug wires etc. - and the engine died... and will NOT restart. I checked and there is no ignition spark. What component could I have damaged by removing wires with it running? I checked all of the fuses (that I could find) and found none blown. I'm at a loss what to check first...
The only similar experience that comes to mind is when I fried the coil in an obd1 Integra doing a compression test without removing ECU fuse.
Anybody with experience in this engine? Know how to pull Fault codes? How to shadetree-test ignition components?
discuss...
Tonight she brought it to me complaining of it running rough. I listened to it and noted it was skipping. Checking for the skip, I pulled the plug wires off one by one to determine which cylinder (#2 fwiw) was misfiring. So far so good, right?
Before I got any further along, wifey comes out and I'm showing her what I've done- repeating the process of pulling plug wires etc. - and the engine died... and will NOT restart. I checked and there is no ignition spark. What component could I have damaged by removing wires with it running? I checked all of the fuses (that I could find) and found none blown. I'm at a loss what to check first...
The only similar experience that comes to mind is when I fried the coil in an obd1 Integra doing a compression test without removing ECU fuse.
Anybody with experience in this engine? Know how to pull Fault codes? How to shadetree-test ignition components?
discuss...