6th Generation Civic 1996 - 2000 In the years from 1996 to 2000 Honda released it's 6th Generation Civic.
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2000 Civic will not start

 
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Old Aug 29, 2009
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2000 Civic will not start

I have a 2000 honda civic lx. I started the vehicle and attempted to leave the store and when I put the car in reverse and started backing, it sputtered and died. Now all it will do is spin over. Towed it home and found that I wasnt getting fire. After doing tests I came up with the conclusion that it was the ICM. Changed it and spark plugs and now I have spark and fuel but car will not attempt to start. It just spins over and doesnt even give a "pop". I was going to try and check timing but cant seem to find any marks on the crank pully. I do see the marks on the timing cover. When I do put the timing light on #1 and spin the car over, I'm not getting a light on any plug. But if I pull the plugs and plug them into the wire, I am getting fire and when I pulled the plugs they are wet with gasoline. So now I'm leaning towards timing. I'm getting fuel and spark and still no ignition. Not real experienced or a big fan of Hondas and not sure if I should be getting a timing light signal by just spinning the engine over on these cars.
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Re: 2000 Civic will not start

Could be timing belt??? How many miles on it?
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@ 130k. I looked inside the valve cover from the oil filler hole while I had someone spin it over, and the belt is definitely not broken but I'm worried it may have jumped. I also was doing some thinking last night and thought about how I couldnt get spark with the old worn plugs that were worn to almost .075 gap. The recomended is .044 gap. I had to close the gap on the old plug to almost .044 to get it to spark and it never was a nice blue spark, it was always a white kinda ball puff of spark. Then I thought about it, the plugs were firing on that much gap before I drove up at the store, now they wont fire nowhere near that much gap. I think I may have a weak fire issue. Changed the ICM yesterday, think I'm gonna change the coil today.
 
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