1996 Accord EX Crank but no start
 

Hey guys new to the forum but not new to Hondas and I need some help. I bought a 1996 accord ex 4 door for my daughter for graduation and we've run into some problems. The car drove great after I did a motor/tranny replacement due to blown head gasket (bought this way) and tyranny damage (never use impacts to tighten cooling lines ). One day the car starts to stall on her at stop lights (thinking relay of course) then It dies on her as shes doing about 40..she pulls over gets it restarted and brings it home. I go to restart it to see if I can reproduce the issue and it refuses to fire up. Cranks great no issue there and I've replaced a bunch of stuff listed below. Please keep in mind she drove it home and parked it in front of the house and thats where she sits.

Items replaced/repaired in my quest to resolve the issue.

New timing belt water pump (timing is dead on verified 3 different times) done during motor swap
New Crank Position Sensor
New Plugs
New Coil
New Igniter
newer cap, rotor and wires
New ignition switch
New fuel filter
Main relay kicks on pushes fuel to filter (confirmed during fuel filter change)
Main relay ordered but they sent the wrong one waiting on replacement (existing one seems to work as its giving me the 2 sec click and check engine light goes off)
No codes per jumper harness
Car has spark (checked off of number 4 wire)
Appears to have fuel.
All ground wires confirmed intact checked and reset

Things I plan to do next couple of days are to get the new main relay in but that doesn't appear to be the issue and to try to start with starter fluid. I only paid 500 bucks for the car and I've got about 800 in it on top of that and I'm really getting tired of messing with it. Junk prices are stupid low so Im trying to avoid that too. Any insight would be appreciated.

Suggest attempting to start w/ starter fluid or throttle body sprayed into intake duct; 5-10 sec injection. This will confirm spark is strong enough to support combustion and fuel supply is missing.

If positive test, check that injectors are firing w/ a noid light.


good luck

exactly what I planned on doing when I get off from work ..after taking her to work kinda sucks cause I have a 2012 civic si turbo car that I've got to swap maps on to test and tune...and work from home. will update with results

Ok, she sputters with starter fluid and I've rechecked the grounds again. I've discovered I have power to the injector clips however there is no pulse verified via bulb test. Looking around I found that if you ground the a23/a24 lines off the ecu this sometimes works....not in my case however. It appears I may have a faulty ecu and I'm currently trolling ebay to find one. Will update with results.