I'm having intermittent problems starting my Camaro. I have an MSD 6AL and Blaster Coil. I'm pretty sure it's a spark problem, as I am reading no voltage at the coil when cranking.
What would you guys recommend? Bypass the MSD and see what happens - is this a pretty straight forward thing to do?

Cheers

 

OK, I figured out how to bypass the MSD and it still does not want to start. Am I correct in thinking the inputs to the coil come from a module on the distributor? If so, is it likely this unit is corroded & failing? I did have to previously replace my distributor rotor a few years back because it was corroded.

 

not 100% on that one but i think no, if i were you the first thing i would check is the rotor to see if it was corroded

 

Alright, easy enough to check the dist cap and rotor I guess, so I will give that a look tonight. I have plugged a a spark plug into the coil and held it against the block and got no spark. I am sure the firing order is correct, but yeah, no spark. When it was running it was running fine.

 

if it was running fine then just died it sounds to me like a dist problem or a cracked coil my buddy had a blazer that just died one day turned out it was a cracked coil

 

Well the weird thing is I am still able to start it on occasion. I was able to start it last night but it was running like absolute crap, would die if revs dropped below 1500. So I uploaded an older bin (super aujp 3) and was able to get it to idle at 900 no worries after it warmed up.
I went and tried to start it this morning and it turned over for ages then fired up (just before I was about to give up) and idled fine.
Do you think it's still worth checking the distributor?

 

i would anyway just to be sure and its not hard to check it

 

Cheers mate I will check it out and let you know. I appreciate the help by the way, thanks heaps!

 

no prob man