A weird one...

Just went through a sequence of emails from a guy in Georgia.

He bought a '95 V6 Accord very cheaply from the owner, who gave up on it
because he couldn't get it running.

The Georgia guy was totally stumped, so asked me for any tips I might think
of. We went through everything. There was spark, there was fuel, everything
was apparently there. But the engine would crank and not show any sign of
firing up.

One thing he never mentioned until the very end was that the engine was
blowing back through the intake, but compression was good.

Guess what was wrong?

The previous owner had installed a starter from some other vehicle that ran
BACKWARDS from the Accord's proper starter. The engine was spinning the
wrong way around when cranked.

Replacing the starter with a correct one fixed the problem with no other
changes.

How's *that* for a "gotcha"?

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Tegger

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