FZJ80 igniter?

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Pardon my ignorance, but what is an igniter??
 
EricG said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what is an igniter??


About 421 bucks.............:D
 
kai38 said:
What are the symptoms of the igniter going bad on a FZJ80?
Thank you,


NO spark, engine turns over, no start, tach needle dead.
 
EricG said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what is an igniter??


The igniter controls the spark. It is a small, very spendy, electronic control box-thingy. Failure in the 80 is not common.
 
cruiserdan said:
NO spark, engine turns over, no start, tach needle dead.

aka a coil?
 
EricG said:
aka a coil?

On older cruisers its attached to the coil, On my 80 its on a mounting bracket on the driverside inside wheel well.
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The shop w/ my cruiser traced the problems to the igniter and this being a one horse town unless you have a chevy or ford it had to be ordered. I'm not sure what they will hammer me for but looking on the internet its over $400.00. Autozone has them for under $200.00.
Its cutting into my road trip money to Austin next week.:crybaby:
 
EricG said:
aka a coil?


Nope, there is a coil as well as the igniter. Think of the igniter as a rather fancy set of points and condensor.
 
igniters and exciters are used in turbine engines, spark plugs and coils are for those engines that use gas and have those aluminum plugs moving in and out of a hole

ok smart ass turned off :D
 
Do all year 80s have an igniter? I was looking through the manual and couldn’t find it for my 94. 🥸

Only the gas engines. :)
 
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I deleted it due to LS swap.

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