Ok so i have a very interesting situation... my moms 88 carborated accord died the other day. I was driving it headed back to her house and down the street it just shut down and would not start again... it cranks great but i am not getting any tac movment when cranking, and she only spits out one spark when you first start cranking... I tried replacing coil on a friends advice and same thing. so i returned it and tried replacing the dist... same thing.... Any advice where to start looking?

 

my buddy came over and we tested for signal comming from the dist., power at the coil, everything we could think of. everything seems to be proper but it's still just firing one spark when you first turn the key and nothing else...

 

One question first, is this a TEC or Hit dist....or another way, is the ICM on the outside of the dist?

Did you test the ICM.

 

it's a tec and the new dizy came with everything

 

chaos u mite wana check an c if ur on time,the only way 2 c if all ur pistons r at TDC is 1st.get ur #1piston at TDC compression stroke an the rotor is pointing at ur #1 plug an the timming mark is allined?1nc that cheks good turn the crankshaft 180 degrees counterclockwise ur #3 piston shuld be @ TDC an the rotor pointing at ur #3 plug if thats good again turn crankshaft 180 degrees counterclockwise an ur #4 piston shuld be @ TDC an rotor shuld be pointing @ the #4 plug if thats good then again 180 degrees counterclockwise an the #2 piston shuld be @ TDC an rotor pointing @ #2 plug????now if at any time during that process ur pistons or rotor does not match up then u must change the timming belt?if ur a DIY car guy like me u must buy the haynes repair manual its a handy book 2 have,good luck!

 

sounds like a busted timing belt