Hank wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The car is a 92 Civic EX. My wife had reported a couple of times that
> it failed to crank, but I was assuming the clutch switch was being a
> little two picky. It's now happening to me, but it's not the clutch
> switch.
>
> When you go to start the car, there is electric power, warning lights
> come on, etc. When you first try to engage the starter, everything
> dies, as if the battery has been disconnected (or a fusible link
> blown). The first time it happened, I was looking around for a main
> relay that needed reset, but it reset on its own (probably less than a
> minute). It's now happened a couple of more times. The power is
> actually totally disconnected (for example, the radio pre-sets are
> gone, no lights, no nothing).
>
> I look at the circuit diagram, and see an "electronic load detector"
> and a couple of big fuses, but from what I read about that on usenet,
> this doesn't seem to be the failure mode. I search (usenet) for "main
> relay" and that seems to be the PGM relay, which has a whole 'nother
> set of symptoms.
>
> I've got a pretty crappy manual (chilton's) and it's not much help.
>
> Any ideas or advice?
>
> thanks,
>
> Hank
>