follow up to my 1989 Honda Civic DX Sedan TDC Sensor/ECU Problem.

Someone asked me to post how my problem came along.

After they took the TDC sensor out of a broken distributor and put it in
mine.. the distrubutor worked fine.. but the tdc fried part of the ecu when
it blew so I was still having timing/acceleration issues.

They found a used ECU (the computer on the passenger side) and replaced it.
Car runs fine now, engine light is off and my accelerations is back.

That was an expensive little sensor blow up. They don't make TDC censor's
for those distributors.. and they have to take it apart to figure out how to
fix it.. then track down another one with a better part and rebuild the
distributor.

then they had to figure out if the car would be fine with a broken computer
board. I couldn't live with the acceleration problem so I paid more money
to get it fixed (and I Thought it might fry the TDC again).

I'm in Canada.. and shop rate around here is 75 Bux an Hour. I think the
salvaged distributer was 160. 35 for the new cap. about 4 hours labour plus
tax came to about 550.

then it was 250 for a USED ECU and 60 bux for labour to swap it with the
other one.

ugh.. so about 900 bux later my car runs! ouch!

i hope this doesn't happen again.

- Brian

 

Ouch! Thanks for the report. bob