sputter/bog

[civic_boy91]

ok my car has been sucking my money out of me like crazy. car insurance, main relay, exhaust, and now timing issues. here is the story on the latest. i changed the rotor cap wires(auto lite), and plugs (ngk v-power). im not new to this kinda stuff... but i ran into some problems. i know the way the plugs go in the cap and the order of everything. well i go to start the car and reerreerree...pop!... so i check it about 5 times. It was right. the rotor was not off 180 degrees ... so it starts...running like total shit i lug it over to my friends house (fellow Honda guy) and we compare where the wires are and there the same ..So I knew I had it right ... I go to start it and nothing ... keeps cranking...im getting pissed. It started (still bad) I messed with it ..Nothing... (yes everything was plugged in all the way). Well I took it apart and sprayed some break cleaner in the bitch thinking thee must be some kind of film on the rotor... well it did the trick...but today on the way to work i floor it and I get a nice little stumble/bog that would stay if I didn’t let up...WTF... it did it for about 5 min but after i was driving for a while I took it up to 6k just fine, really smooth. Felt good... I have been doing tune-ups on this car sense I was 12 years old and that has never happened. I have never had to spray shit in there....
I haven’t driven it sense so ill see what happens... hope its fine ... anyone with any ideas of what it could be or could have been would be appreciated.
Sorry for the shitty post

[TheSilentChamber]

did you gap your plugs right?

[civic_boy91]

yes...forgot to post that

[CRXsiZCpa]

Makesure the rotor is on good. Does it start to stumble/sputter at a certain RPM range? Mine use to do it soon as it hit 4,000rpms+ it would stutter as all hell. So I went and bought a new dizzy and problem solved.

[civic_boy91]

sorry iv been im orlando the past 2 days...she runs great now ...i still dont know what it was. i would say its all good i just put 450+ miles on it going 90mph almost the whole way, what a diffrence a simple tune up makes on how the car runs at 90-105mph...

[civicwithawankel]

I had problems like that on my car (91 DX hatch) and that was with my old (original?) distributor but a new aftermarket cap+rotor. When I got a code 8 (TDC sensor) I pulled the cap off and the rotor itself was loose... there's the main part made of plastic and a metal sleeve that goes over the dist shaft which is *supposed to be* fixed in place as 1 solid piece, but the rotor could turn a few degrees in either direction, as well as moving in and out a small (but unacceptable) amount... anyway I threw out the am rotor and took an old oem one from my parts car along with the dist base, and put my new ignitor and coil in with the old rotor and it worked perfectly after that. I also had some trouble with timing just before and when my timing belt snapped, but if brake cleaner in the dist fixed it then it's probably not your timing belt...
Best advice I can give, buy Honda oem ignition parts not the crappy aftermarket ones because americans can't make japanese quality parts for a japanese car... even wrecker parts are better imo than some cheaply made generic part, regardless of price...