ok heres the problem....car wont start..it cranks gets fuel but no spark....

its got new plugs (1000 miles ago)
new wires(1000) miles ago

all plugs are gapped correctly...

battery is fully charged...

my dad told me its probably the ignition module....its got the stock hei on the 305 carbed motor...

the car died while driving one day...just stopped running and never started since(this was about a month ago)

i know its under the cap...or dist or something but have no experience with distributors.....so if someone could please walke me through it and tell me where it is and how to change it and if it sounds like that could be the problem id appreciate it....t

thanks in advance

shawn..


the motor has 19000 miles on it

 

pretty simple, remove the cap remove the module and unplug the wires. only a few screws to take out. install i nreverse order, make sure you use the greese under the module. if you buy the replacemnt fist you'll know what you're look for. as for the no spark condition there are other parts that might also give you no spark, like bad wire(s), bad coil, or bad rotor to name a few.

 

id look at the coil...coil went bad on my car back before I frankisteined it and it was the coil...had fuel, and cranked but no spark.

 

Replacing the coil and module at the same time is a good idea, because either one going bad can take out the other.

Another good reason to replace them is that the factory coil and module were not very good parts.

My nephew's '86 LG4 had about 130k on it when it died on him in southern Colorado on a trip from Iowa to New Mexico. Had it towed to a dealer, they took all weekend but finally replaced the coil and module (and cap and rotor and plugs and plug wires). He said it suddenly ran awesome (he'd had the car for 2 years at that point) and got 27 mpg the rest of the trip.

Replace both the coil and module. The Accel pieces I put in seem to work very well.