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Gents (and Ladies, too) -
In my 1500 I put new plug wires, new plugs, a new cap and rotor. Now the car hasn't run right for a while, so I pulled a plug and tried to check out the spark. Almost nothing. My question is how do you know if a coil is going/has gone bad,
and do Pertronix pickups degrade over time? I have no idea if this is the original or what, but I'm a little stumped as to how to go about solving this..I have Voltage to the hot side of the coil, and some sort of pulsing voltage to the other side, but no spark.I'd hate to just throw money at this without understanding what I'm doing...
the weather's getting into the 70's here, and I'm starting to panic not having my Midget...
thanks in advance,
George
In my 1500 I put new plug wires, new plugs, a new cap and rotor. Now the car hasn't run right for a while, so I pulled a plug and tried to check out the spark. Almost nothing. My question is how do you know if a coil is going/has gone bad,
and do Pertronix pickups degrade over time? I have no idea if this is the original or what, but I'm a little stumped as to how to go about solving this..I have Voltage to the hot side of the coil, and some sort of pulsing voltage to the other side, but no spark.I'd hate to just throw money at this without understanding what I'm doing...
the weather's getting into the 70's here, and I'm starting to panic not having my Midget...
thanks in advance,
George