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Old Oct 31, 2022
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1998 Honda Civic Dx starts and dies immediately.

My civic starts and dies immediately unless I give it gas and if by some miracle it does start and stay on the rpm’s are always rough and over 2000 need help on how to get rid of this issue.
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Re: 1998 Honda Civic Dx starts and dies immediately.

Anything done recently?
check timing (mechanical, and ignition), spark plugs, firing order, iac
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Re: 1998 Honda Civic Dx starts and dies immediately.

Yes I had to change sparkplugs new starter new distributor new fuse box new terminal cables car wouldn’t start before all this was replaced.
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Re: 1998 Honda Civic Dx starts and dies immediately.

These cars don't like aftermarket distributors.
so does it have spark?
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