Yarlissa

Well the ignition coil won't go past 6v when cranking, even if we jump it to 12v it won't spark out. The distributor we bought was from a running 87 so we don't want to waste more money until we are absolutely sure the distributor is bad. But also we want to know what the wiring on the 87 distributor are so we can hook up the correct wires, but we think we did but we do want to make sure.

So is there anyway to know what the correct wires on the car that need to match the 87 distributor? If anyone can tell me the 12v, 5v's and ground or a way to test the 87 distributor side?

So we tested it and the coil is reading 6 volts and when trying to crank it still reads 6v. There is supposed to be a exciter? We check the distributor and the green black wire has 12v. Green yellow and black white has 5v. The black wire is ground with 43ohms of resistance. And does the coil supposed to have 6 or 12v? And if 12v can we run a hot from positive from the battery to the coil without a ballest resistor? We tried another coil and its the same 6v.

So i took the cap off and it does spin.

It's been sitting for so long because my grandfather let someone else borrow the distributor and never brought it back. Sadly I can't ask my grandfather who took it since he passed away. But I'll definitely take the cap off and see.

I'm working on my grandfathers car that has been sitting for almost 20 years and my dad was trying to help me get it working. There was no distributor in it when we popped the hood and we managed to find a 87 GL distributor. We cut the connectors and we matched the cars wire color to the distributors and cranking it over it won't spark. My dad found something online saying swap the green and white wire but we don't have a white wire and we don't want to fry it. Any ideas?