Cutlass won’t start **Help!

[olds307 and 403]

Like I said, that basically leaves the pick up coil. They usually fail completely but if the wires have bare spots, it could be grounding out. Use your ohm meter. Measure each wire to the module to ground and the resistance between both wires. Actually it melted around the center contact inside the cap without the ground strap and cooked the coil.

 

[airboatgreg]

How many pins(terminals) on the module? I am leaning toward pick up also

 

[Rigo’s87]

How many pins(terminals) on the module? I am leaning toward pick up also

6 on the module

 

[Rigo’s87]

Like I said, that basically leaves the pick up coil. They usually fail completely but if the wires have bare spots, it could be grounding out. Use your ohm meter. Measure each wire to the module to ground and the resistance between both wires. Actually it melted around the center contact inside the cap without the ground strap and cooked the coil.

Where would the pick up coil be? Because once I look for it on Autozone it states that is not applicable for my car.

 

[airboatgreg]

If you are sure you have 12 volts to the distributor I would check contacts at the module for good connections, If there is a Tach wire, disconnect that as it could be grounded. I just don't remember the diagnoses tree to differentiate the ECM output to the module to fire the coil. Pick up coil would probably be the easiest.

 

[Rigo’s87]

Where would the pick up coil be? Because once I look for it on Autozone it states that is not applicable for my car.

 

[olds307 and 403]

It is under the rotor and below where the advance mechanism would go, if it had one. Not easy to change, which is why a junkyard replacement or a reman may be the way to go.

 

[Rigo’s87]

It is under the rotor and below where the advance mechanism would go, if it had one. Not easy to change, which is why a junkyard replacement or a reman may be the way to go.

So it would be where does two bolts are where the rotor bolts to from that pic I attached..

 

[olds307 and 403]

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The top piece where the rotor sits probably need to be removed. See those 2 screws/bolts on the silver piece below? That is the pickup coil, do an ohm test on it. Follow the leads from the module harness to it, test those wires.

 

[airboatgreg]

There is a knack for replacing the pick up for sure. I replaced hundreds of them back in the day. My concern is I would like to be sure it is the distributor. I guess you could get one and just hook everything up and spin by hand to see if you have spark. Cruise the web and see if there is a diagnoses tree to test. It will take you step by step.