Loaned my 1990 Honda to my son and it wasn't a matter of an hour or so and I received a phone call announcing it had died. Frustrating considering it had run fine for 240,000 miles until he took it. Oh well.... Towed it home and checked for spark and found none as expected based on his description of how it died. Got out the Haynes manual and did the diagnostic checks in Chapter 5.8. After disconnecting the wires to the ignitor, I turned on the ignition switch and measured voltage at the black/yellow and white/blue wires. Haynes said their should be battery voltage at both wires. The black/yellow wire was OK, but the white/blue wire had none. I was then instructed to "check the circuit between the corresponding wire ad the igition coil." It became confusing at that point because it appears the wire does not directly go to the coil. Reading this discussion thread, I am lead to believe the problem is the ignitor or coil. The ignitor makes sense considering the recall Honda had on the part. I don't want to spend the money if I can't troubleshoot the problem properly. The Haynes manual is sketchy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
