MatthewMcD
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I am so frustrated.
In the "bypass" configuration I started her right up this morning and drove her into my garage to more easily work on the engine. She idled for about 10 minutes while I moved my other car back into the driveway. No issues.
I should have known it was going to be a long day when one of my overhead lights died. It's probably just a bad ballast, but it set the tone for the day.
After removing the old resister and finding it packed with wasp mud. I swapped the new resister inline, buttoned up the wires and tried to start it. No spark. I bypassed the resister (the same way I just had to get it into the garage) and NO SPARK! WTF? I spent the rest of the day swapping parts and generally cussing because I am at a total loss for what I am missing.
With the key ON I measure 12V across the Black/Yellow (+) wire and the Black/White (-). Not sure what the Red (+) wire should read.
When I try and get a spark from the coil lead, I can't. I have tried both the old coil and the new one. Neither will spark on a chassis ground.
I feel like I am missing something fundamental that is preventing the coil from generating a charge. I haven't even tried to introduce the resister yet.
Here's the old resister!
In the "bypass" configuration I started her right up this morning and drove her into my garage to more easily work on the engine. She idled for about 10 minutes while I moved my other car back into the driveway. No issues.
I should have known it was going to be a long day when one of my overhead lights died. It's probably just a bad ballast, but it set the tone for the day.
After removing the old resister and finding it packed with wasp mud. I swapped the new resister inline, buttoned up the wires and tried to start it. No spark. I bypassed the resister (the same way I just had to get it into the garage) and NO SPARK! WTF? I spent the rest of the day swapping parts and generally cussing because I am at a total loss for what I am missing.
With the key ON I measure 12V across the Black/Yellow (+) wire and the Black/White (-). Not sure what the Red (+) wire should read.
When I try and get a spark from the coil lead, I can't. I have tried both the old coil and the new one. Neither will spark on a chassis ground.
I feel like I am missing something fundamental that is preventing the coil from generating a charge. I haven't even tried to introduce the resister yet.
Here's the old resister!