HELP>>>Distributor

[tazz]

Hello everyone. I need to change my ditrubutor and have no clue on how to do it. Can any help me with this?

Know of a place i can use as a reference? Any help at all will be great.

 

Car is a 1992 Honda Civic...1.5 liter

 

 

Thank you all in advance

Mark

[cranny]

use somin to make a mark where the old dizzy meets the engine. unhook the 2 plugs from the dizzy. take the 3 , 12mm bolts out that hold it on. remove it. reverse it.

[tazz]

use somin to make a mark where the old dizzy meets the engine. unhook the 2 plugs from the dizzy. take the 3 , 12mm bolts out that hold it on. remove it. reverse it.

 

 

Thanks for the insight. I only have one other quetion. Will i have to time it or will it set it self since it is an elctronic ignition.

Thanks again

[cranny]

no it should be timed , but if you mark it , and your car ran fine before duzzy problems , you should be ok. but if you have access to a timing light than yes , absolutely retime the engine. if you have one , and need know how , let me know.

[tazz]

yes my neighbor has one i can use so if you could tell me how to then that would be great. But you said that it should be timed already right. If so then i wont need to do that however if you think it is best to retime then i will do that.

[Kastigir]

What cranny is saying, is that *if* you put the new one on in exactly the same place as the old one, it won't need retimed. That being said, I've never marked it, and when I put the new dizzy on it was either still perfect, or close enough to not be noticeable.

[cranny]

thats bad mechanics kast honestly. you should always mark them. you wouldnt beleve how much a mm on the dizzy can make your timing off. and you may not nitice it , but its eating more fuel , wearing your engine faster , so on so forth. point being , if your gonna do somin , mine as well do it right , specially when its no more difficult than the half ass way.

 

on the main pully , turn the engine over by hand , first set of marks you come to are timing marks , 3 of them in a row , you want to mark the middle one white so you can see it good when light flashes.

now start your car , holding revs at 2500 till the fan starts under the hood , means the car is fully warmed up.

than you wanna go in your passenger side floor kick panel , find the blue 2 pin connector by the ecu , same one for getting codes. its not plugged into nothing , should just be hanging there or plugged into a holder which also tends to be blue. cross the 2 wires in that connector to one another.

than you wanna hook the timing light up , and start engine again with 2 wires crossed. and aim the gun straight down the pointer on the plastic cover that covers timing belt , youl find it. make sure your looking perfectly down that pointer , and when light flashes , the white mark you made should be exactly lined up with pointer. if its not , adjust dizzy till it is. tighten everything up , and drive.