Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
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Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
i have an l98 v8 with a carb and hei distributer
i was driving at 45 and the engine just died and im assuming its a spark issue.
i took the #1 plug out and tried to get a spark by placing a wire in it and placing it close to metal ground but i got no spark.
I have two wires coming into my distributer a pink one and a brown one. I verified that the pink one has 12 volts in the key ignition position and i think the brown one goes to my alternator. The ground also looks good.
I took the distributer cap off. The rotor spins.
Help i have work on monday
i was driving at 45 and the engine just died and im assuming its a spark issue.
i took the #1 plug out and tried to get a spark by placing a wire in it and placing it close to metal ground but i got no spark.
I have two wires coming into my distributer a pink one and a brown one. I verified that the pink one has 12 volts in the key ignition position and i think the brown one goes to my alternator. The ground also looks good.
I took the distributer cap off. The rotor spins.
Help i have work on monday
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Re: Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
Cap and rotor look good? How old is the distributor? The coil and all that check out? Do you have a spare distributor that you can swap some parts from?
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Re: Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
its my only distributer and its fairly new.
Earlier in the week i had been cleaning up some old wires in the engine bay. But i drove around the block fine and then after a few miles it just cut out
Earlier in the week i had been cleaning up some old wires in the engine bay. But i drove around the block fine and then after a few miles it just cut out
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Re: Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
fixed it once i tore apart my distributer cap i found that the ground coming from the msd ignition coil was loose
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Re: Car died need to fix it by this weekend. help
actually that fixed the problem for about 5 minutes then i had no spark again. i tore into the distributer a little deeper and found this but i have no idea what it is called so i dont know where to buy it. It is broken in the middle
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The problem might be the spark module.
The fastest way is to find out is to swap it.
However if you want, you can unplug the 4 pin connector from the distributor.
Then remove the distributor cap.
Then unplug the pickup coil from the module.
Now connect a voltmeter to the tach terminal.
Turn the key to RUN.
Using a 5 volt power supply with a small bulb in series, touch 5 volts to the innermost pin (it’s labeled P on some brands) of the module.
Now, does the voltmeter sharply decrease when you touch the 5 volts to the module?
If there is no response from the module it’s bad or not grounded.
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How bout those too scared to drive without headlights in the daytime
and the ones that need headlights for a little rain
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The fastest way is to find out is to swap it.
However if you want, you can unplug the 4 pin connector from the distributor.
Then remove the distributor cap.
Then unplug the pickup coil from the module.
Now connect a voltmeter to the tach terminal.
Turn the key to RUN.
Using a 5 volt power supply with a small bulb in series, touch 5 volts to the innermost pin (it’s labeled P on some brands) of the module.
Now, does the voltmeter sharply decrease when you touch the 5 volts to the module?
If there is no response from the module it’s bad or not grounded.
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Happy Racing!
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How bout those too scared to drive without headlights in the daytime
and the ones that need headlights for a little rain.
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