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I have had my 1989 Civic hatch for almost 2 years now. Pushing 210k miles with not a single serious problem yet. However, it's been having problems cranking for a good few months now.. It will start fine every morning to and from work. But if I drive it more than 15 minutes down the road, run into the store and come out it won't crank..(turns over but won't catch) It can take it anywhere from 3 minutes to nearly 2.5 hours on one occasion to start. Few days ago I was driving to work, (shifted into neutral and coasted- so I KNOW I didn't stall out-) and stopped at a stop sign and it just shut off on me, no sound no nothing just dead. Few cranks later it started. And cranked up just fine after work also. By the time I turned it off that same night at my mother in law's and came back out 10 minutes later it's only beeping when the keys in the ignition and my lights will come on but it won't crank or turn over, nothing at all. Just silence. Can someone help a girl out with this on going bother??

 
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on the times when it doesn't crank, are you getting a rapid clicking sound?

 
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Before it would just sound like it was trying to start. Now there is no sound at all when I turn the key.

 
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check your battery connections that they are tight. (don't touch them at the same time!) If headlights are strong and you are getting no sound when you turn the key, I would move to checking all fuses, under the dash, and under the hood.

 
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Battery connection is good.. The car WILL roll start, but won't crank when we try to manually do that **** with the screw driver to the solenoid. We may have narrowed it down to either the main relay switch, the clutch safety switch, starter, solenoid.. I don't really know.

 
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it's not main relay or clutch safety switch or you wouldn't be able to roll start it. I had similar issues to this and the solution was a good negative ground to the starter. You string a wire from negative terminal on the battery to the starter case (there should be a piece of metal sticking out with a hole that makes a good location). I am willing to to bet this is your problem since honda starters rarely go bad altogether. The screwdriver trick just creates a good positive connection but if there is a lot of dirt and grease on your transmission case there is no good negative ground.