Car not starting - died while driving

[Michael Cummings]

First thing I have to say is that this is not my car, its my gf's car a 1992 Honda Civic CX.

The car was having troubles starting (it has a near new battery), would get power and would turn over but wouldn't actually fire up/start.  So tried jumping it and it worked.  Then while driving it started to lose power in 5th to point where you had to downshift to get it to move, and down to 3rd and 2nd to the point where all power was lost.  Had to pull over and turn the car off, now it won't start again.  And wouldn't start with a jump.

Still gets power and makes noise trying to start but doesn't.  A Honda friend of mine mentioned that it could be the ignitor in the distributor.  So he lent me a distributor with a working ignitor (a working distributor).  I swapped that into the car and also put in new plug wires and nothing - still the same problem.

I'm thinking maybe its the alternator?  Any ideas or suggestions.  Could it be the fuel pump?
The battery has a full charge, and car has half a tank of gas.

[mitchell hamilton]

Sounds like the alternator is toast, not charging up the battery and drained it. Check all major connections and grounds and test what kind of voltage readings your getting at the terminals.

[Michael Cummings]

It didn't drain the battery, you missed where I said that the battery had a full charge.

I figured out the problem anyways the fuel pump is toast.  Going to try to pick up a new one tomorrow.  Thanks for reading though.

Now if only finding the problems to the talon was as easy.  And holy crap is it ever easy to get at the fuel pump in this car.  Underneath the back seat and no rusty/corroded screws to deal with (on fwd talon like mine).