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I drove my car all over the place yesterday, down to Clairemont to eat pho then around town test driving cars for yucks, then drove it back home.
Then this morning when I'm trying to go to work, it doesn't start. I can hear the fuel pump going, and I smell a little gas when I try to flood it, so I guess it's the spark.
I figured it might be my ignition coil, which has been throwing a check engine light, and the tachometer isn't working, and I may have wired it backwards to begin with (oops). Though it was working fine (tach and all) until I had that shady shop change the clutch. Since then, I've had to wait until everything warmed up and the CEL came on before I could drive the car or else it would stumble and cough and all sorts of nastiness.
So I got another coil (another oil-filled canister coil, with internal resistor. This time OE replacement for an old Dodge or something, not Accel), wired it up correctly this time. Still no go.
There's a little oil under the distributor cap, but there's been more in there before and it hasn't caused any problems (o-ring is shot). I'm going to get some wire and make a new coil lead tomorrow.
Could it be the ignitor? I don't wanna know how much a new one would cost, so I'll go to work and see if the same one is in any other cars, and get a fistfull from the junkyard. One of them is bound to work
Any other ideas? I know I probably need a new distributor, but I wanna get all the cheaper stuff out of the way first.
Then this morning when I'm trying to go to work, it doesn't start. I can hear the fuel pump going, and I smell a little gas when I try to flood it, so I guess it's the spark.
I figured it might be my ignition coil, which has been throwing a check engine light, and the tachometer isn't working, and I may have wired it backwards to begin with (oops). Though it was working fine (tach and all) until I had that shady shop change the clutch. Since then, I've had to wait until everything warmed up and the CEL came on before I could drive the car or else it would stumble and cough and all sorts of nastiness.
So I got another coil (another oil-filled canister coil, with internal resistor. This time OE replacement for an old Dodge or something, not Accel), wired it up correctly this time. Still no go.
There's a little oil under the distributor cap, but there's been more in there before and it hasn't caused any problems (o-ring is shot). I'm going to get some wire and make a new coil lead tomorrow.
Could it be the ignitor? I don't wanna know how much a new one would cost, so I'll go to work and see if the same one is in any other cars, and get a fistfull from the junkyard. One of them is bound to work
Any other ideas? I know I probably need a new distributor, but I wanna get all the cheaper stuff out of the way first.