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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 10:41 AM
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You do have the wire on right I assume. 1-4 and 2-3. I have seen some guys put them back on wrong. With that being said could explain your O2 not reading correctly.

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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by 4RETECH
You do have the wire on right I assume. 1-4 and 2-3. I have seen some guys put them back on wrong. With that being said could explain your O2 not reading correctly.

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I thought about that this morning. We took it out and retried it many times yesterday and I even took the wires out today to see if we could of put them on wrong but there's only 1 way they will work so I figure they're on right.

The O2 is probably bad but I don't see how that would cause the whole problem, sure it would run bad but now it won't even start and doesn't even seem to be trying.
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 06:49 AM
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The cars not even trying to start or turning over now. Does anyone have any idea what this could be? There's no way an O2 sensor would make the car not even turnover...
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 07:01 AM
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The o2 and crank sensor plugs are in the same area as the coil plug, passengers side.
Something's not plugged all the way, or your ckp is bad. A bad o2 won't stop your car from starting LOL
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 07:06 AM
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could be a bad crank sensor as well......
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 08:00 AM
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Won't turn over? Is the battery dead now? Have you tested it?
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 08:47 AM
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Where are you located?
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 09:36 AM
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You just said the car drove fine before an now after you change the plugs it idles like crap an now won't start??? You need to triple check all your connections. Not sure how a car can magically not run after you change a part when before hand it was operating fine.
I think your chasing your tale and might want to get someone more mechanically inclined to look over it for you.
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 10:42 AM
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your best bet remove the connectors for the ckp and the 02 sensor which should both be buy the passenger side of the valve cover. Remove them spray some of the connection cleaner spray in them look inside make sure the pins in them arent bent, reconnect them, disconnect the battery, reconnect after 15 mins then try starting it. And not for anything never put autolite plugs ever in your car. There **** they might be ok on hondas but not on evos man. Either put in a new set of bpr8es, or go with a one step colder iridium plug, like the denso iw24 thats what im running. As for the possible bad spark connection, get some dye electric grease and coat the inside of the spark plug rubber insulator on each cylinder with that grease, and make sure when your puttin them back on top of the spark plug you hear a little click, thats how you know the rubber boots are properly connected onto the spark plug, or else your gonna get spark that shorts out on the head and doesnt fire the plug. Hope this works try it and report back. good luck
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by 1d10t
The o2 and crank sensor plugs are in the same area as the coil plug, passengers side.
Something's not plugged all the way, or your ckp is bad. A bad o2 won't stop your car from starting LOL
Originally Posted by dmcghie
could be a bad crank sensor as well......
I will look into these and yes I know it's ridiculous.

Originally Posted by 4ce fed
Won't turn over? Is the battery dead now? Have you tested it?
I don't think the battery is dead I will test it though.

Originally Posted by HyboostN
You just said the car drove fine before an now after you change the plugs it idles like crap an now won't start??? You need to triple check all your connections. Not sure how a car can magically not run after you change a part when before hand it was operating fine.
I think your chasing your tale and might want to get someone more mechanically inclined to look over it for you.
It drove fine after being warmed up, it was kind of rough at first like it was missing. The CEL was on before this happened too so I'm assuming when I went to change plugs something happened. I've been trying to get a hold of a local guy who's real good with evos but no luck yet.

Originally Posted by dastallion951
your best bet remove the connectors for the ckp and the 02 sensor which should both be buy the passenger side of the valve cover. Remove them spray some of the connection cleaner spray in them look inside make sure the pins in them arent bent, reconnect them, disconnect the battery, reconnect after 15 mins then try starting it. And not for anything never put autolite plugs ever in your car. There **** they might be ok on hondas but not on evos man. Either put in a new set of bpr8es, or go with a one step colder iridium plug, like the denso iw24 thats what im running. As for the possible bad spark connection, get some dye electric grease and coat the inside of the spark plug rubber insulator on each cylinder with that grease, and make sure when your puttin them back on top of the spark plug you hear a little click, thats how you know the rubber boots are properly connected onto the spark plug, or else your gonna get spark that shorts out on the head and doesnt fire the plug. Hope this works try it and report back. good luck
I'm going to order another set of the bpr8es's. I just started classes today so I haven't had much time to mess with it. Not to mention I'm an hour and half away from the car right now but I will be trying all of these things and see what happens, thanks a lot for your input.
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