91 accord 114k won’t start follow up as to what caused it and more ?’s please help

[davidcrevenston]

Hello to all,
1st and foremost thanks for your help and wonderful insight and advice. Turns out it was something with the distributor. I went and pulled a nice looking distributor off a 91 Honda accord at the salvage yard today and it works great. This is what I would like to know from you now so I can learn something here. When I inspected the old (bad distributor) I notice the distributor cap was very badly corroded and it appeared like that might have been the problem. So if indeed the problem was the distributor cap only I did a lot of extra double work. I believe the contacts on the distributor cap might have been corded enough so that the rotor could not make contact or spark. Would that really make this problem just a corroded cap and the contact points being corroded inside the cap? Please advise me here so I can learn. If its not the distributor cap then it would have been the igniter inside the distributor. I also took apart the distributor and inside I found the igniter (Either the igniter or the coil) to be crystallized and would fall off/apart when you touched it. I believe that corrosion on the igniter was causing the corrosion on the distributor cap would do you think please advise me thanks for you help in this matter.
Dave

[AaronRVegas]

well its a 20 year old car, so things like that are going to happen. the coil is a rectangular thing with a cone(kind of) looking thing coming off of it. the igniter is the silver thing that has 3 or 4 little electrical connectors on it. it should have some dielectric(s/p) on the back of it.

i think the corrosion could cause the car to not start but i think more than likely it was either the igniter or coil.

at my local salvage yard they remove all the dizzys and you have to go inside to get them $100 a pop