No Spark

[Peter]

My car just passed 100,000 yesterday and when i was driving down the road today my car randomly shut off so i pushed my car home with my brother and found that i had no spark. I ordered a new distributer today because i figured the ignition coil inside of my old distributer burnt out. any feedback/ideas otherwise. any similar expirience that might help me?

 

[outsider_27]

Ignition coil, or ignition module. I have had both of those problems. You more than likely didnt need to buy a whole new distributor.

 

[jrm81bu]

And I hate to mention that if you just ordered a stock replacement distributor from somewhere like Advance Auto, it's not gonna come with a new coil anyway. The coil is only inside the cap, not the distributor.

 

[megaladon6]

what year car, and is it the stock distributor?
make sure there's power and ground to the coil/dist. then make sure there's no spark from the coil and out of the cap.
it could be a bad dist, module, coil, cap, rotor, wires...

 

[Peter]

i opened it up today, i put a new ignition control module in it and my rotor like exploded pretty much and all the metal parts on it fell off so im putting a new cap, rotor and coil in it today and hopefully that'll do the trick