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Hi guys,
I’m trying to fix my brother’s Integra. It was sitting there for a month without starting it.
Later I tried to start it the battery died. It was having trouble holding a charge, so I replaced
a new one. Now it cranks, but won’t start. I checked the main relay, and fuel pressure, they seen
fine. Then I checked the spark, there’s no spark. Therefore, I think it might be ignition coil failure.
But now I’m having some trouble taking out the distributor rotor screw.I was using this screw driver, but I think the it didn’t catch the screw that will and I was doing it
in an angle. I stripped the screw a little bit.Now I’m using another screw driver seen to catch the screw better, but the screw is really hard to turn.
And I’m afraid I’ll stripped the screw even more.
My question is there any way to prevent me to stripped the screw even more?
If I stripped the screw completely is there a way to save it?
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[quote=”adsl0703″ post=76151]Thanks for everyone’s help. After break the rotor plastic and help of vise grip the screw came off easily. Luckily I found the parts from last owner which include all the parts that I broke.
And I was told by my mechanic saying that I can check if the ignition coil is good by measuring the resistance between the spring and the positive and negative. It was off the 12-19 kilo ohms range.
I replaced the ignition coil and the baby is back to life.Does anyone know the testing resistance method is a good way tell if the ignition coil is good?[/quote]
Testing coil resistance is not reliable. It’s not just me saying this, I’ve spoken to engineers that engineer ignition coils for a living on this issue. The problem is that the coil breaks down under load. If you do a simple resistance check, it’s not enough current to find a break in the windings. In other words, a coil can test good and actually be bad. For that reason, this is how I test ignition coils in Hondas.
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