Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Honda Civic won't start after head gasket replaced?
I recently got the head gasket on my 99 Honda Civic LX replaced. When I got the car back the timing belt was slightly off, and the mechanic said to bring it back in a week and he would adjust it. It drove alright for a while, then it started to sputter at stoplights. One day it simply refused to start. The engine would turn, but when it caught it would die right away. Initially this was only during warm startups, but then it refused to start altogether. I had it towed to the shop and the mechanic was positive it was the igniter. He replaced that, but after starting once it had the exact same problem. I am fairly certain he screwed up something when he was reassembling the engine after the head gasket job and is just too ignorant to admit it. Any thoughts?
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