Need some help here people. I'm kinda stumped
Car starts but won't go over 30kms and has no power

I have a 91 civic DX that was just put back on the road after about a year of sitting.
Changed plugs, filter, oil, reg stuff.
It was running very well for about a week on the fuel that was left in it since shut down.

heres the weird thing though, for about 30 kms prior to the car having NO power, the alternator belt was spinning and doing that whine that is so familiar to grocery store parking lots. As soon as that stopped the car had zero power. The belt is still there and even after tightening it the problem still exists.


Has this happened to anyone here or is there some suggestions that might help out.

thanks

 

Measure the battery voltage while it is running to see if it's charging. The alternator and ECU are interconnected in strange ways on these. Possibly if you remedy a charging problem, the other problem will resolve itself.

Also it could be one of the two fuel injectors is dirty or defective.

 

after replacing the fuel filter yesterday the ecm light was telling me its an error code 16 "fuel injector"
I'll have to take them out this afternoon to see if its one of them. man this is a pain

any help is still appreciated please

 

ok, just thought I'd come back and advise as to what the problem was
the catalytic converter was blocked by its own ineards (sp?) there wasn't much left of it either, so I punched it out and am now running straight through until the dreaded e-test
when I say blocked I MEAN blocked, I should have taken a picture
thanks for the advise guys

 

Converters do that for a reason -- raw gas coming out of the engine when it shouldn't, burns hot in the converter, melts the inside down. The engine was/is running rich or misfiring a lot.

 

Besides the converter, it is also possible to mess the egine up with the nasty gas that was sitting in the tank for all that time. Heat and cold can be murder on sitting gasoline. Condensation starts in the tank and rises and falls into the gas, which of course starts the whole water and fuel mixture. Would be a good idea to run a bottle of solution to get rid of the water in the gas.