Here is the problem, the car will crank but will not start. The battery is at 12.35volts which I know is alittle low as opposed to 12.6. When I crank the car it smells like gas, I would assume the car is getting gas. I did not have a spark tester on me today but I will be checking for spark tomorrow when I trailor it to school. Does anyone know what I should check? I will be hooking up a flow gauge, spark tester, and scope tomorrow at school but I am not familar with this type of dis system. When I look at the coil pack it seems to have no external 12volt feed going into it (I was going to hit that 12v wire with a test light to see if it was good). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

bump.

 

I would bet $50 that your distributor is bad. I just replaced mine on my 1990 accord. You can take it somewhere to hook it up to a computer if you wish.

I bought my distributor from advanced auto parts.. unfortunately the part the gave me gave me trouble and eventually went bad.. but they give a liftetime warranty so I got a new one free and now everything is fine. (maybe just bad luck)

Anyway.. it's the distributor I'm 99% sure and I would check your sparkplugs while you are at it to see if you need to put some new ones in.

 

Well, pay up, its was not the distrib. It was the coil, for the coil ohm checked within specs but must have been internally shorted. Hooked up a scope and the pattern showed the primary to be good.

 

Hahahah owned

 

Stock up on the coil, it is the most known part to go bad.

sad part is you can get them for 35 bucks but everyone just goes to bone yard and buys a whole distrib. for 150 bucks and trashes the old one with just a bad coil. Was numb nutzer