My New Wagon...

[Freshmeat]

My dad's good for saying there's spark when there isn't (like last time this happened), so I'm gonna check myself for spark and see what I find. I'm just so tired of working on these cars. I love them, but I'd like to at least drive one of the damn things.

[Freshmeat]

It's firing on 4 or five cylinders. Where do I take it from here? I'm thinking ignition module, but I could be wrong. What can I check before I buy anything?

[Blaze86Vic]

replace the wires and plugs, and clean the distributor. Wouldn't hurt to replace the cap and rotor.

[Freshmeat]

New cap, rotor, and plugs. It's worse than I thought, though...
checked again and the cylinders that do fire only fire two or three times then stop.

[Paul_]

Wonder if the module on the distributor is fried. Does the module get scalding hot when running?

[Freshmeat]

I wouldn't know- can't get the fucker to run. Hehehe.

[mrltd]

sounds like the pickup..swap the dist if you have one..

MIght also want to check the power to the coil, and the coil itself.

[Freshmeat]

It also did this with my new 40,000 volt coil.
How much power should be getting to the coil?

[mrltd]

Should be getting 12V on the red wire...