2002 Honda Civic with no compression

Asked by cjh1988 May 11, 2015 at 09:53 PM about the 2002 Honda Civic Coupe

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 2002 Honda Civic. It was running fine, then I go to start it one morning before work and it starts, but dies immediately. Start it again and hit the gas, and still dies. Start it again and now it wont start. It cranks but the motor wont turn over. Now there is no compression. Double checked the tester, its working. The pistons are moving, the spark plugs are getting spark. Changed them just to be sure. Checked the myths about it being hot this morning and pushed it in the shade. Let the gas cap off to see if it was vapor locked and its still not starting. Have no clue why it would run fine and then all of a sudden, not turn over, with no codes or check engine light. Please, help me if you can.

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Mine is doing the same but only in 2 cylinders? Timing is right.

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a worn belt will cause this start and die problem providing you have good spark and fuel pressure ,, a broken belt may cause interference with pistons and valves and you don't want that so you might want to check things before you keep cranking it .

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I have similar problem to "cjh1988" i check similar items, spark and gas all ok. Opened timing top cover anf found 4 teeth off on timing. when at yellow timing mark on balancer, the cam is 4 teeth off mark. next is to adjust timing with same belt and with all spark plugs off, perform a compression test per cylinder. then replace the belt water pump etc if and only if compresion comes out good. dry (non oil) test result of 140 to 150 is not bad for 161K mile engine.

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I believe the you will find the problem is attributed to a bad timing belt tensioner which has failed and allowed the timing belt to jump time enough to cause the valves to open at the wrong time. Hopefully the timing did not jump off timing enough to bend the valves. If not it could just be a matter of changing the tensioner and the belt.

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