Just had a great snow last night and on the way back to the house from driving around this morning my wagon cut off and wouldn't start back... After I got it back to the house, tried to start diagnoising it... Appears there is no spark/power from the coil and I have replaced the coil with 2 known good ones and still nothing, thus the problem appears to be before the coil...

 

After a little bit of researching I've decided I will try and replace the amplifier, little electronic piece that is attached to the bracket that holds the coil... Just want to make sure there isn't anything that I might be missing, all the fuses under the dash are good and the fusible links seem fine and well connected...

 

Like I said just want to make sure there isn't something else I am over looking or something that I might also want to grab when the local junkyards actually open back up after some of the snow clears..

 

-caleb

Check for power at coil - w/key on before relpacing anything.

If OK,check bracket grounding.

Disty rotor turning?

Edited January 30, 201016 yr by naru

The amplifier thing comes to mind but I've never actually seen one randomly fail while driving. Usually due to some other electrical issue, sitting for a long time, etc.

 

My first thought is if the timing belt broke. Which is probably why the previous poster asked about the disty turning.

Check for power at coil - w/key on before relpacing anything.

If OK,check bracket grounding.

Disty rotor turning?

 

This^^

mine did the same thing pop the disty apart & replace the cam pick up unit it was bad while your in there make shore that your baring is good

If it just quit, I would def make sure the timing belt didn't go. Just pull the distributor cap and make sure the rotor is turning. Then go from there.

I'll take a look when i get back to the house, thanks for the input

Still haven't been back to the house to check on things... Anyway, with the dizzy rotor or timing belt, even if there was a problem with one of those items wouldn't there still be spark coming from the coil? Since I have nothing coming from the coil I'm inclined to believe the timing belt is fine and so is the dizzy, thus making me believe something pre-coil is wrong, ie the amp

No, if the driver side belt went, you would not have spark. The crank angle sensor is built into the distributor. Since the distributor won't spin if the belt is broken, you'll have no signal from the CAS. This means no spark.

No, if the driver side belt went, you would not have spark. The crank angle sensor is built into the distributor. Since the distributor won't spin if the belt is broken, you'll have no signal from the CAS. This means no spark.

 

 

I see, thanks for the info!