hello all,
Some way some how unknown to me, my spark plugs are out of firing
order in comparison to the diagram of how they should be. When I put
them in the order they should be, the car won't even start. I guess
they were put on wrong at one point and the timing was set with it
like that. The car runs fine...some noticeable power loss though. Is
this a situation where I will have to re do the timing by twisting the
distributor and such or what? I usually have my dad help me with this
stuff but I go to school 2 hours away and kind of need some detailed
direction of how to deal with this as I'm sure this is probably
harming my car. However, I can usually do anything myself with proper
guidance and direction.

Thanks
Ricky
93 civic lx
1.5L 201k miles

 

rickylowary@gmail.com wrote:
> hello all,
> Some way some how unknown to me, my spark plugs are out of firing
> order in comparison to the diagram of how they should be. When I put
> them in the order they should be, the car won't even start. I guess
> they were put on wrong at one point and the timing was set with it
> like that. The car runs fine...some noticeable power loss though. Is
> this a situation where I will have to re do the timing by twisting the
> distributor and such or what? I usually have my dad help me with this
> stuff but I go to school 2 hours away and kind of need some detailed
> direction of how to deal with this as I'm sure this is probably
> harming my car. However, I can usually do anything myself with proper
> guidance and direction.
>
> Thanks
> Ricky
> 93 civic lx
> 1.5L 201k miles

firing sequence is 1342. don't rotate the distributor - it's keyed so
it'll be right.

 

thanks jim,

yea i got that but right now the firing order is set to something
like 4132 or something like that. whatever it is, 1 is not where its
supposed to be because 1 is supposed to be at the front right?

 

rickylowary@gmail.com wrote:
> thanks jim,
>
> yea i got that but right now the firing order is set to something
> like 4132 or something like that. whatever it is, 1 is not where its
> supposed to be because 1 is supposed to be at the front right?

if you have a honda distributor cap, #1 is marked - it's bottom left is
you stand facing the distributor with the engine behind. rotation is
clock-wise from the same standing point.