ok heres what happened i put the plug wires in the wrong order.... go to start the car...it made a huge back fire, i fixed the order of the wires and now no spark. i tried using a new dizzy and it works fine. what do you think broke in my dizzy so that i can replace it rather then buy a whole new one.
Rob

 

I don't see a way that you can screw up the dizzy doing that. Maybe mess up the plugs. Have you pulled the plugs out to check them?

 

Hmmm.....well if another dizzy works, I'd check the coil and the ignitor.

 

Yep, like Marauder stated, it shouldn't have harmed the distrubutor, unless...

the kick-back was severe enought to mechanically shock the distributor. Check the rotor and make sure it's secured and hasn't moved.

 

update...i had a new ignitor laying around...put that in...still no spark. anything else it could be?

 

Did you test the pickup coil?

 

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i was going to go with ignitor but i guess not. dont see how this happened though?

 

i dont understand either....the coil and the ignitor were both good. i replaced the ignitor with a brand new one, and then tested the coil. i ended up getting a whole new distributor.