I picked up a 96 Civic as a winter beater this fall, with the D16Y7. I gave it a good tune up a few weeks ago, which included new Bosch cap and rotor, Denso wires, and NGK plugs. The old components were very worn, so I had a feeling the ignition coil was probably exhausted too and was planning on replacing it with my next Rock Auto order.
Two days later the car died on me and left me with a tow bill. Of course I had a good feeling it was the ignition coil. I ran some quick diagnostics and confirmed it was in fact a shorted coil. I needed the car back on the road ASAP, so I grabbed a used coil from a lower mileage 2000 Civic at PicknPull and had the car running again.
Fast forward about 2 weeks, I finally get a new aftermarket coil. And I go to install it, which requires me to pull the distributor cap off. In doing so I notice a substantial amount of white oxidation/build up on the contacts inside the distributor cap I had just installed 3 weeks ago, with only about 1000 miles on it so far. So much that bits of the build up were falling off the contacts and settling on the bottom, inside the cap itself. The distributor is the factory Honda TEC, and the Bosch cap and rotor appear to be OEM quality, marked Made in Japan on the box and the parts them self. The new Denso wires, I have tested at 1.53K ohms (shortest wire) to 2.35K ohms (longest wire). Thoughts?
Two days later the car died on me and left me with a tow bill. Of course I had a good feeling it was the ignition coil. I ran some quick diagnostics and confirmed it was in fact a shorted coil. I needed the car back on the road ASAP, so I grabbed a used coil from a lower mileage 2000 Civic at PicknPull and had the car running again.
Fast forward about 2 weeks, I finally get a new aftermarket coil. And I go to install it, which requires me to pull the distributor cap off. In doing so I notice a substantial amount of white oxidation/build up on the contacts inside the distributor cap I had just installed 3 weeks ago, with only about 1000 miles on it so far. So much that bits of the build up were falling off the contacts and settling on the bottom, inside the cap itself. The distributor is the factory Honda TEC, and the Bosch cap and rotor appear to be OEM quality, marked Made in Japan on the box and the parts them self. The new Denso wires, I have tested at 1.53K ohms (shortest wire) to 2.35K ohms (longest wire). Thoughts?
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