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Old Apr 3, 2013 | 01:40 PM
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I posted this on another forum and was recommended an ignition coil test. My throttle gets lazy often, especially with a hot engine. My gas mileage dropped and the exhaust will get much louder when I lose the power. No exhaust issue. You can look at my other threads if you're interested in more detail.

Heres the part I need to know about:

I did the test described in the FSM. I should mention my multimeter is fully functioning. I just used it for volts and ohms to calibrate my TPS.

It said to turn the ignition off and test the A (+) terminal and B (-) terminal then check A and the winding terminal.

First I checked with the ignition off. For both tests what would happen was I get a spike in ohms and then it would quickly drop to 0.

So although the FSM said ignition off, I turn it on (not with the engine on of course) and...

Set to 20 ohms I checked the points A and B. I got 1.2 ohms.
Set to 2k ohms, checked A and the winding terminal and could not get anything. 0.

I did this several times and would only get a reading from A and B with the ignition on.

This would mean that I would be having much more than acceleration problems right? Remember that my multimeter is fully functioning and I had it set on ohms.
It seems like the coils bad but what do you guys think?

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Old Apr 3, 2013 | 05:41 PM
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Problem Solved
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Old Apr 3, 2013 | 09:59 PM
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Default Re: Bad Ignition Coil?

was it the coil?
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Old Apr 4, 2013 | 04:37 AM
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Default Re: Bad Ignition Coil?

Yup. Oddly enough my only issue was the throttle response and loud exhaust. I never had starting issues or misfire codes. I was running a little rich though.
But I gotta wait for the ECU to completely adapt before making strong conclusions.
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