Help! Revs dropping and shuddering ?

Dreadi · 12 Jun 2012 at 21:40

Help! Revs dropping and shuddering ? Vid now included

Hi Motors.
Can someone shed some light on what might be causing a problem that has happened a few times in the last couple of weeks?
Car is 93 civic vti and a few times recently when cruising/very light acceleration in 4th gear, the rev counter blips down about 1k rpm and the car shudders almost like its not getting fuel or someone is jabbing the brake pedal real quick. Not noticed it in any other gear or under hard acceleration and its starting to worry me a bit now... :confused:

Dreadi · 12 Jun 2012 at 21:44

poker_999 said:
mass air flow sensor is dirty
fuel filter is blocked
your jabbing the brake pedal real quick

Its not the last one I can assure you

Dreadi · 12 Jun 2012 at 22:55

Ok well its getting lowered soon so ill get it serviced and see if that cures it but there's no problem with the idle or it stalling, it literally has only been cursing along and only noticed it in forth gear. If the service doesn't help then I guess it will have to have further investigation.
Cheers guys

Dreadi · 13 Jun 2012 at 08:19

Nah this my vti, the esi is the one I scrapped the other week.

Dreadi · 14 Jul 2012 at 13:56

Well it happened on the way to work this morning and cut out completely twice!
But then didn't do it at all on way home?
Below is a video of it happening. When I turn the wheel at the very start you can just see the rpms dip then they drop off completely so I took it out of gear and revved it and managed to save it, the rest is self explanatory. And sorry for the poor video.

Dreadi · 17 Jul 2012 at 14:49

Outcast said:
Somebody posted about this kind of issue on an 8th Gen t'other day on CivInfo... Turned out to be an overfill on the AC

Who'da thunk it ?

Deffo not the Ac being overfilled, never even used it...

bledd. said:
Had a very similar problem with my DC2 recently

Replaced the distributor cap and the rotor arm in the distributor and it 100% fixed the problem.

Car felt like it wasn't getting fuel and even cut out a few times.

Get in touch with Derek http://www.simautoparts.com/ cheapest place for many Honda parts.

Worth getting genuine parts for the distributor

Had a recond dizzy put on a few months back so i'd hope its not that..