Sixteen Blinks

After a lot of googling and scrolling through forums, my dad finally found the Honda maintenance manual and the troubleshooting codes. Because my car is thirty years old, you can't exactly hook up a scanner and get an electronic code that tells you what the problem is. There's a small LED under the carpet on the passenger side that blinks a certain amount of times, indicating what system is having issues. In this case, the LED blinked sixteen times, so we went to the manual. The code indicated that it was a fuel delivery problem. I decided to start small and replace the fuel filter first since I had absolutely no clue when or if it was ever replaced. So on Friday, we pushed my car out of its spot, and into my driveway, then on Saturday, Josh came over early to help me slap in the Bosh filter I had ordered. Interestingly enough, the filter had been replaced at some point because it already had a Bosh in it, which isn't the stock filter that OEM Hondas come with. But still, it had been in there a long time because the fuel was absolutely disgusting.

Once we got everything reconnected, it was time to see if she would start. I turned the key, and it took a couple tries, but she finally started. And then died again. We knew that we just had to get the fuel running through the system, so this process repeated a couple of times until FINALLY, she stayed running long enough for josh to take it around the block. Although it didn't die that time, she still wasn't running well enough actually drive again, so I went back to the manual. I knew the next thing would be to replace the fuel pump. Still, after doing some more reading in the manual, I learned that if it wasn't the filter that was throwing the code, it's actually the Injectors, which are a pain to get to. I took another look at the LED, and it wasn't flashing, but my dad listened to the injectors, and they were grinding instead of clicking. So I decided to order both the injectors and the pump, and I'll just keep replacing things until she runs again. My grandad took a look at the engine itself, and everything is running smoothly. So at least we've eliminated that problem.