Crazy RPM Guage and Stuttering

[fusioncom]

My car has this really odd problem, after running for about 30 minutes or longer suddenly the RPM guage starts to wack out. For instance I may be cruising in fourth at 45 MPH and suddenly the RPM guage starts to peg out, and fluctuate between all the rpm ranges. Whiles it doing it the car seems to be running fine.

Once this starts happening after I come to a complete stop, and then start to take off any load I attempt to put on the motor the car start bucking, as though it wants to backfire. It does this through all the gears. Power goes down to like 20hp it seems. In second gear I could not get past 15mph.

After the car cools down this issue goes away.

[Leung]

kinda sounds like the igniter going bad.

lets wait on another more experienced member to chime in with their opinion.

[hondajeff]

my first thought was igniter, too

in time, it will completely die

[fusioncom]

Can you buy just the ignitor module or do you just have to replace the entire dizzy?

[jhondayaaj]

you can buy the igniter alone.

[fusioncom]

Another thing I noticed is that during this issue after I turn the car off. It smells like an electrical fire under the hood. But everything looks fine.

So odd.

[JDM ACCORZ]

have you tried replacing the distributor cap but im pretty sure its the ignitor

[fusioncom]

Additionally the car is throwing no CEL lights. When I jump the diag connector, and turn to the on position I get a solid Check engine light and that its. Never goes away.

[Fake Thug]

Additionally the car is throwing no CEL lights. When I jump the diag connector, and turn to the on position I get a solid Check engine light and that its. Never goes away.

Cause the ecu see's nothing wrong.dont worry bout cels if there aint none.

[fusioncom]

Good lord it turned out to be the stupidest thing. We had changed the thermostat and apparently grabbed the wrong bolt for the ground strap, so it was loose as a goose, on there but just loose.
Used a shorter bolt and we are good to go.

[mrvinyl33]

That's the ground wire from the distributor...so that makes sense and gives the same results as a bad igniter or coil.