How to Replace Distributor 1995-97 Honda Accord

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and install the distributor on this '95 Accord. This car has a 2.7 liter V6, so it's the same as any '94 to 97 with this engine. The tools you'll need are just an 8mm wrench and a 12mm wrench.

Replacing the distributor on one of these Honda V6s, it's an easy task; it's also an easy task to mess up, so I'm going to basically show you the way to remove and replace it and make sure that you do it correctly. The first thing you're going to want to do is you're going to reach down underneath and you're going to unplug the wire from the coil that's right down here and you can take that right off of your distributor as well. That's just a short wire from the distributor cap to the coil. Now there's two bolts that you're going to remove that hold the cap onto the distributor: one right here and one right down here, and they're both 8mm.

Okay, so now you're going to pull your cap away and push it over here. Now you can see, here's your rotor, and, actually, this happens to be in a really good position. So, you can take this out, okay, but what you want to make sure is when you put it back together, this rotor's in the same position. What I like to do is get it to a position that I remember, which is basically facing straight up, okay, and I actually, just truly by chance, when I took the rotor off, it was facing straight up. But what you can do, the reason we unplug the coil wire from the distributor is now, say your rotor was facing sideways, you can just turn your car over and you can move that rotor until it's facing the way you want it to be facing. So now you know it's facing up, so when you go to put it back together, you can make sure it's facing up again and really you can only put this is two ways: the correct way, which is up, or the incorrect way, which would be facing straight down.

The next thing you want to do is you want to remove this 12mm bolt right here. While I'm removing that I'll just take these three plug wires out. Okay. Now if you're doing a tune-up or you're replacing the cap and rotor and wires on your car, okay, do that separately. What you want to do is, when you do that you want to do the wires one at a time so that you make sure that you replace them in the same order. Don't go taking your distributor cap off and taking your wires out and everything like that and then when you go to put it back together you can't figure out how to get it together the same way.

You remove this bolt. Now you can just kind of grab hold of your distributor, pull it out and then right here's the connector. There's a button right there you press and it should come off. You shake, you pull and it comes out and there's your distributor out of the car. This distributor's actually in fine shape; it works fine. A lot of times what will happen is the bearings inside will wear out and this can move around or some of the electronics inside wear out but to put it back in and, actually, you can check the condition of your rotor. You can see this one's kind of burned; I will replace it. I'm just going to show you how to put this back together for right now.

So you put it back in and even if my rotor is kind of over in the sideways position like this, I can just kind of give some pressure on the rotor and turn it to where I know it's supposed to be and everything kind of slides together and the rotors lock into place. So now I can move that up, put my bolt back in and tighten it up. You want to make this bolt tight, but it doesn't have to be incredibly tight. Okay, let's plug back in our lead here, put it into the right position. It snaps in. And then take our cap which, again, I'll replace this but I don't have a new cap and rotor right now this second, so the cap goes on, we retighten up these 8mm bolts and put our wire back in and push until you feel it click. This one down to the coil, push down on the rear of the hose and then push till it clicks and you're all set.

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