ok well the hatch i was talking about in the other post (will an ea82 disty fit in an ea71 motor) is now mine i bought it off him nice and cheap!!

now heres my question it doesnt seem to be getting any spark when i check it, ive done the backyard check on both the sparkplug wire and the wire from the coil (backyard meaning stuck a screwdriverin the end of the wiresd and looked for spark when i cranked over.

now the coil had been replaced recently and was double checked with another coil that was good to see if it was a bad coil and still nothing. now i did notice when i pulled out the disty it had a little bit of up and down play in it on the inside piece that the rotor connects to i didnt figure that was normal.

anyone got any ideas what this problem could be???

btw info on this car is: 87 hatch with ea71 and 5spd tranny 2wd

A little bit of Up and down play is normal, it's the front to back and side to side play that you have to worrie about. To me is sounds like a bad ignition module or one of the wires connected to it. Dose this hatch have a tac in the gage cluster? If so, watch it while cranking the engine over, if the module is working the needle should bounce a little.

ok i know im gonna sound nice and stupid asking this, but is the ignition module the one right next to the pickup coil????, btw the disty is the late model nipendenso style, at least it looks like it comparing the pickup coil setup in the crappy haynes manual