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Old Nov 1, 2006
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Hello...and help!

Hello everyone...

1990 Civic HB Si (STD 1.5L Engine)

So I'm driving home last night (12:15am) and I'm almost home and my car just shuts off...I turn the key (going 110 kph) and it starts again for a second and shuts right back off again!

So it's sitting on the side of the road now in a parking lot (after much grunting and pushing) and everything comes on when I turn the key, radio, dash lights, heater fan...but when I turn the key to start...it want's to start but there is almost a screeching sound and it won't start...help!

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Anyone else want to weigh in here?

I'm replacing the cap and rotor tomorrow and the spark plugs if I can get the one seized one out.

I'm also going to pull the lid off my timing belt and check to make sure that is in one piece...and listen for the fuel pump to check my main relay.
Is there another way to check the relay without the pump?

I'm also checking for spark in the morning too...although I've never done that and am a little nervous.

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Spark!

No SPARK!

So my friend got home from his trip to the US with his truck and hauled my car back to my house and he determined that I have no spark...but now what.

I have changed 3 out of four spark plugs...one is seized...and I'm having trouble with it.

I have also put in a new dizzy cap and rotor.

Now....?

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So I took off the timing belt shrowd and here's what I saw:

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...bum/tbelt1.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...bum/tbelt2.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...bum/tbelt3.jpg

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...bum/tbelt4.jpg

The timing belt didn't just break...it vanished...it's gone...completely!? In the last picture it appears as though the spring is still in one piece so that's good...

So...is this a hard fix? Now what? (Aside from the obvious of buy a belt)

Jason
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