Alright so i have a 1990 camaro with a 5.7 tpi automatic. The car has been sitting and i decided to do a head gasket replacent and all the other gaskets that have to come off with it. I also all the ac components because im young and this is my first car so my idea is race car 😂 but the only there is the compressor. I have not cut out the wires yet because i want to get the car running first and eliminate as i go on. It also has a 92 rs steering column because the original one for my car the tilt mechanism was busted. It still has the 92 connections on the the steering column because read in another forum that it was a direct fit. But it was missinng a couple pins in each connection. So i dont know if this could be one of my problems ? But the car is all back together. The car is cranking , i have fuel at the injectors when i turn the key so i know fuel is there , but i dont have any spark in any spark plug wire (new wires) ive read in another thread on how to trace it all back from the wires down to the pick up coil. The pick up coil is good, i bought a new icm, new rotor ,new cap,new ignition coil .i have power going to the ignition coil and coming out of it where the other connector.but no spark out of the wire that goes to the cap. Ive checked fuses and im just at a lost . it doesn't throw any codes . it just flashes code 12 the 3 times then stops. If anybody knows anything please help and thank you very much 👍

 

 

Whoops meant 1990 for the thread name, and this is the thread i was talking about where i followed the steps.no i did not get a pulse.but i wasnt sure if i did it right i used some random led i found laying around and some wire and used it as said. Ground to the white wire of the ingition coil and postive to the battery. What made me unsure was that when the key was off the led light could come on? Is that normal or what ?

 

Did you crank over the engine during the test ?

1. 1Connect the BLACK wire of the LED to one of the two WHITE wires of the ignition coil's connectors (see photo above).
   
2. 2Connect RED lead of LED to the battery (+) positive terminal. It is important that it be connected at the battery positive terminal.
   
3. 3Have an assistant crank the engine. The LED test tool should blink on and off as the engine is being cranked.
   

 

yes followed the test exactly like instructed, i had my friend crank the engine , the led tool that i made did not blink on and off. I testedthe bulb before the test to make sure it turned on and the bulb worked. It confused me though because it was a brand new icm. Could it be the electric grease it came with ? Ive read something about that

 

 

Alright i will get it tested, is there any chance something could be wrong with the distributor ?

 

 

Is there supposed to be power coming out of the icm connector labled GBRE ? Im taking the ICM's i have to autozone to get checked out

 

 

 

Today i took apart the distributor and looked at the contacts where the rotor spins and they were rusted and everything just looked like it was time to be replaced.i figured have the money at the time and everything else new so might as well get a new one. another thing not to worry about. Im getting it tmrw and wont be able to put it in till thrusday. The car isnt with me unfortunately

 

So finally got spark. Put the new distributor in and still no spark, talked to my dad and he told me about the relay there was on the passenger side firewall. i put a spare on it and tried cranking it and got spark. So now i just gotta figure out why it aint turnin on. But thanks for the help on everything though .really aprreciate it 👍

 

 

No i do not , i had switched the drivers side ones around but that did nothing and i tried the one on the passenger side and it worked , had spark the first crank after. I never tried that one cause i figured it was for ac since it was next to it