Engine hesitation and poping sound
#1
Engine hesitation and poping sound
2000 Accord SE 2.3 Vtec
Ever since I took off distributor cap off and put it back, my engine hesitates and I can hear some poping sound from exhaust pipe. I went to autozone to ask and the person over there told me it sounds like timing issue.
I heard before distributor cap itself won't have anything to do with timing.
Can it be really timing?
any advice would be appreciated.
Ever since I took off distributor cap off and put it back, my engine hesitates and I can hear some poping sound from exhaust pipe. I went to autozone to ask and the person over there told me it sounds like timing issue.
I heard before distributor cap itself won't have anything to do with timing.
Can it be really timing?
any advice would be appreciated.
#3
just cap to see if oil was leaking. Even with hesitation, RPM is very normal and the car runs very good. I recently cleaned up throttle body, changed o2 sensor and the car ran very until that point I took off the cap. I check the wire which looks okay to me.
I don't feel I lost any power.
I don't feel I lost any power.
Last edited by noltian; 05-17-2011 at 09:51 PM.
#4
Make sure the metal part of each spark plug wire was inserted all the way into the post on the distributor cap.
Since you have an SE that is a vtec engine. There is a spring-loaded part of the distributor cap that makes contact with the coil. Make sure that you didn't lose it when you removed the cap.
Since you have an SE that is a vtec engine. There is a spring-loaded part of the distributor cap that makes contact with the coil. Make sure that you didn't lose it when you removed the cap.
#7
I also purchased new distributor cap and tried. most of the issues, hesitation and poping(blurping is more close I guess) are fairly gone. However it still does a little which I didn't have before.
Should I change coil and rotor to see more? or get a timing checked.
Since engine oil was leaking from the shaft ( it was the reason I opened the cap..), I was debating if I should try to change inner seal explained in this forum or change entire distributor. I found new Hitachi distributor around 100 on ebay.
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