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| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 | trucks been sitting outside for several years (covered). cleaned her up, bought a rebuilt carb, new w/p, plugs , etc.
cranks good, put new crimp connectors on coil and yellow wire on solinoid.
useing finger controled remote starter with key in on position and there is no spark from coil when i hold it near motor metal.
if i run a new yellow wire from coil to solinoid would that be good thing or is there something else i should look at ?
thanks in advance ...
paul | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,826 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,826 | Put a new set of points & condenser in it, and adjust the gap to about .020". Be sure you're getting voltage to the + terminal of the coil by checking with a test light, not a digital voltmeter.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 | no spark is going to the distributor from the coil ...
that is my problem.
i tested by exposeing the distributor end of the coil wire twithin 1/8 " of metal on the motor.
remote cranked the engine and .... no spark. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | The points tell the plug wires to spark. If I understand what you are trying to say your test was, there would be no "spark". The juice from the coil to the distributor is constant and the points "break" it. The coil plug wire would not spark under the condition described. The condenser stores that juice for the extra oomph to the plugs. My bet is on the points and/or the condenser as Hotrodlincoln says. You could still have a bad coil and that can be tested with a volt/ohm meter. I did find this bench test for automotive coils. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 | if not getting voltage to coil what would be the problem ?
should i replace yellow wire from solenoid to coil ?
thanks | | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | Run a separate wire from the battery to the + side of the coil after doing the bench test above. That will take the ignition switch out of the equation. If/when it starts you will have to pull that wire to shut it down so don't attach it permanently. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 | ok -
thanks - for the link.
for explaining the coil.
i thought i would get a spark. but i see now that would never happen.
i will get it goin tomorrow morning.
paul
Last edited by p.dow; 05/06/2010 4:58 AM.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 64 | so i already have a remote starter i am useing ( a trigger switch with 2 aligator clip leads to the starter solenoid) ...
do i still run the battery to + coil terminal ?
try to start with remote starter and if starts then disconnect the battery to coil wire ?
is that correct ?
thanks
Last edited by p.dow; 05/06/2010 5:04 AM.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,826 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,826 | 'Mater, I think this one's a lost cause!  Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,201 | No, I don't think so. Just a little more guidance. | | |
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