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PROBLEM WITH SPARK TO DISTRIBUTOR

Started by leeandgrant, March 13, 2008, 08:53:08 PM

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leeandgrant

Two weeks ago started up my 69 charger and moved it from my pole building to house garage. For the last week the car will not start. I am starting to get mad. I converted the ignition two years ago to electronic and has never given me any problems till now. I have power to the ballast resistor, power to positive side of coil. Ignition switch is working fine. I have spark from coil to dist cap. I have removed the orange ecu from another car that runs along with the ballast resistor and coil and put it on my 69 and still same problem. Did I fry something in distributor? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Plumcrazy

If you have spark coming out of the coil the ECU is doing it's job.
Did you check for spark at the spark plugs ?  If you don't have spark there then you need a cap or rotor.

It's not a midlife crisis, it's my second adolescence.

r73mopar

i just had this problem with my 73. the pick up coil in the distributer could be at fault,there is a test you can perform with an ohm meter check a servive manual for exact spec and proceedure

Plumcrazy

Quote from: r73mopar on March 18, 2008, 10:43:29 PM
i just had this problem with my 73. the pick up coil in the distributer could be at fault,there is a test you can perform with an ohm meter check a servive manual for exact spec and proceedure

The resistance is about 700 ohms if i remember correctly but, if the pickup in the distributor goes bad you won't have any spark out of the coil

It's not a midlife crisis, it's my second adolescence.