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jasonek98
Aug 13, 2011, 02:42 PM
When trying to start my 98 civic it clicks I have swapped out the ignition switch to bypass the alarm and still nothing , I have also installed brand new starter and battery. Most of the time when I try to start it nothing happened just clicking from my main relays and I hear a small buzzing coming from around my ecu area and then at randon it will start,I checked all my plugs are good under the hood and I installed 2 new engine ground wires
This really stumps me. I left my car light on at work one day and it killed the battery this is how it all started
But before that it started like nothing

TxGreaseMonkey
Aug 13, 2011, 03:57 PM
. Check all under hood and under dash fuses with a test light or multimeter--especially focus on the ACG (ALT) (S) fuse in the under dash fuse box.

. Clean the main ECM ground, located on the thermostat housing.

. Perform the K-Test on the ECM.

jasonek98
Aug 14, 2011, 04:17 PM
How do I do the k test?

TxGreaseMonkey
Aug 14, 2011, 05:22 PM
Use the search function.

jasonek98
Aug 14, 2011, 08:30 PM
I'm pretty sure the ecm is fine because when I push start the car it runs perfectly fine