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[fleming442]

Speaking of gaps, how much gap is on your spark plugs?

 

[Pc3]

^^ what he said.. I would start with drilling a hole in the cap and look for spark and then go from there and phase it

 

[pontiacgp]

Pulled the cap and rotor off saw some corrosion on the cap used some sand paper to clean it same with the rotor and made sure the rotor button was contacting the cap. Even so shouldn’t it at least spark somewhat considering electricity jumps gaps?

I always have a new rotor and cap to put on if I have problem. My 85551 had alot of rust on the reluctor and other metal parts so I got out the sandblaster and cleaned off the rust without taking the distributor apart or removing the magnetic pickup, after the sandblasting I cleaned out the distributor and put it in the car with a new cap and coil and fired it up.

 

[JAMCAR223]

About this much??

 

[pontiacgp]

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About this much??

wrong thread, Doug Chahoy is waiting for a rear end....

Just can’t win

If you do need a conversion U joint Napa has them but before you get too excited that Napa has nothing to do with this Napa.....:coffee: https://napavalleycoffee.com/ Strictly a Folgers drinker !

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[JAMCAR223]

Plug gaps like that are NEVER in the wrong thread

 

[pontiacgp]

Another thing to check is the power and ground for the distributor is good.....

 

[fleming442]

One could also pull the coil cap to expose the terminals, put a DVOM on the tach lead, and see if the module is triggering the coil: one side to ground, other lead to tach, DVOM set to AC, look for 1-4VAC while cranking.

 

[Stupidquestionspro]

Another thing to check is the power and ground for the distributor is good.....

Power and ground are good as is the connection and wires.

 

[Stupidquestionspro]

One could also pull the coil cap to expose the terminals, put a DVOM on the tach lead, and see if the module is triggering the coil: one side to ground, other lead to tach, DVOM set to AC, look for 1-4VAC while cranking.

So one lead to the ground on the coil itself and the other lead to the tach output from my distributor looking for 1-4v ac while cranking?