tallshag
New Member
The 1.6 hesitates when I get on it, in real hot weather (in Alabama this is often) the hotter the weather the more it does it.
I’ve replaced the coil, plugs, distributor cap and rotor. The rotor had not much corrosion on it, and it had light scratches around the spot where it makes contact.
With a new rotor it got a good bit better but it still does it. My experience with cars doing this, says the distributor could be suspect. Possibly the plug wires but those were replaced by the previous owner not long before I bought the car. The distributor ends of the wires looked fine, almost new.
The hesitation/sputter doesn’t happen below 80 F, and it gets to be a real b***h at 90 F and above.
When this happens, if you use less throttle the motor smooths out and will go fine slowly. But when more than about 20 percent throttle is applied, it does it again with a vengeance. I’ve had cars stutter similarly when they had a dirty fuel filter, but that’s been replaced on this car.
So does this sound like ignition system trouble somewhere? Who had had a Civic do this ? What fixed it?
I’ve replaced the coil, plugs, distributor cap and rotor. The rotor had not much corrosion on it, and it had light scratches around the spot where it makes contact.
With a new rotor it got a good bit better but it still does it. My experience with cars doing this, says the distributor could be suspect. Possibly the plug wires but those were replaced by the previous owner not long before I bought the car. The distributor ends of the wires looked fine, almost new.
The hesitation/sputter doesn’t happen below 80 F, and it gets to be a real b***h at 90 F and above.
When this happens, if you use less throttle the motor smooths out and will go fine slowly. But when more than about 20 percent throttle is applied, it does it again with a vengeance. I’ve had cars stutter similarly when they had a dirty fuel filter, but that’s been replaced on this car.
So does this sound like ignition system trouble somewhere? Who had had a Civic do this ? What fixed it?
