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#1
07-17-2003, 08:58 PM
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i think my engine is really screwed
ok earlier today i was taking my girlfriend to a job interview there was a slow dude infornt of me and i passed him in seccond gear and at 40 mph when suddenly my engine died, i thought it was a fluke so i dropped my clutch to try and kickstart it again after kickstarting it it sputtered for a couple secconds and died again, once more i tried w/ the same result. so i pulled my car off the road to take a look at it, when i cranked it at stop it made a wierd sound like a plunger i though my timing bealt had snapped, but the valves still move. it made a wierd sound when i tried to crank it kinda like "p'wonk" it's in the shop right now but just wondering if i could get some help b'cause the mechanic is sick right now. plus i only have $110 and i need to know if i can afford to fix what might be wrong. please help.
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I'm no street racer nor do want to be, my goal is a fun car... that leaves SUVs in the dust. current car: red 90-civic-STD-hb with dx trannie, ecu, shift knob, & rear seats. i hate my vynil seats. p.s. i am once again with computer, please forgive the one year leave of absence. 
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07-17-2003, 09:11 PM
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Do you know how to take off the distributor cap? if so, check to see if the rotor is loose. this has happened to me a couple times, what happens is the screw that hold the rotor on comes loose and lets the rotor fall free.
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#3
07-17-2003, 09:21 PM
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well i had thought my timing bealt slipped a tooth but that sounds a whole lot more likely, seing as the distributor is at most 100k miles old and it was from a junked car who knows thanx i'll ask the shop to take a look at that. unfortunately i had a choice of towing it to my house and not being able to fix the prob myself or towing it to a shop and having it garunteed.
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I'm no street racer nor do want to be, my goal is a fun car... that leaves SUVs in the dust. current car: red 90-civic-STD-hb with dx trannie, ecu, shift knob, & rear seats. i hate my vynil seats. p.s. i am once again with computer, please forgive the one year leave of absence.
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07-17-2003, 10:00 PM
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i do but thougth it was timing bealt related, so it's at the shop. i'm still trying to learn about automechanics so i try when i can.
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I'm no street racer nor do want to be, my goal is a fun car... that leaves SUVs in the dust. current car: red 90-civic-STD-hb with dx trannie, ecu, shift knob, & rear seats. i hate my vynil seats. p.s. i am once again with computer, please forgive the one year leave of absence.
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#6
07-18-2003, 09:18 AM
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Tow it to the nerest cliff and give it a push - it'll accelerate nicely then.
J/K Seriously - your mechanic needs a good kick in the fucking head for all the crap you've gone through with that engine "conversion" 
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07-19-2003, 10:17 PM
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well i would agree but he told me to go back early last week and see what was going on w/ the lack of power and check the rest of the systems that were from the original car and i didn't go for lack of money, but now i'm really f***ed, next to no money and no car, oh well my paycheck came in hopefully it'll be enough for rent and car repair.
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I'm no street racer nor do want to be, my goal is a fun car... that leaves SUVs in the dust. current car: red 90-civic-STD-hb with dx trannie, ecu, shift knob, & rear seats. i hate my vynil seats. p.s. i am once again with computer, please forgive the one year leave of absence.
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07-24-2003, 11:12 PM
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lol
 hey guys it was simply the distributor disk's screw came off, all the shop did was put it back on and i'm good to go well that's what i get for buying a trashed junkyard car... 
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I'm no street racer nor do want to be, my goal is a fun car... that leaves SUVs in the dust. current car: red 90-civic-STD-hb with dx trannie, ecu, shift knob, & rear seats. i hate my vynil seats. p.s. i am once again with computer, please forgive the one year leave of absence.
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