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No spark... Well. Some spark. |
broomhandle |
Oct 1 2012, 10:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 26-June 09 From: Half Moon Bay, CA Member No.: 10,512 Region Association: Northern California |
I'm going nuts. I have spark to my points. They open and close. But I have no spark to my plugs.
I have a 1.8 with a 009 dist. Any thoughts? It turns over but nothing. |
Dave_Darling |
Oct 3 2012, 04:53 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
Let's just re-state this.
You have power to the (+) terminal of the coil. The points get grounded and then the connection opens, and they are hooked to the (-) terminal of the coil. You've unplugged the tach wire from the coil to take it out of the equation. The big fat wire from the coil to the center terminal of the distributor cap has spark. You've checked it with either an extra plug or just holding it close to a grounded piece of metal. The spark was fat and white and happy, not pathetic and orange. Once the spark goes into the cap, it does not come back out of the cap. You have checked this with a known (TESTED!!) plug wire, either with a plug on the end or held close to a ground as the center coil wire above. You have checked the resistance of the distributor rotor from the center to the tip, and it is appropriate for your setup. If all of that is true, then either the distributor cap is effed or the rotor isn't bridging from the center electrode on the cap to the outer electrode. So, are all of those separate things that I have listed correct? You've checked each and every single one? If you have a fat wire, you can plug it into the underside of the cap so it bridges from the center terminal to the outer one going to your test wire/plug. Don't even hook the cap on. Then check again for spark on your test wire/plug. This will eliminate the cap itself (or that one part of it) as a suspect. Isolate and test, methodically isolate and test. You'll find what is wrong at some point. --DD |
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