To make this thread even longer, I'll include what I think originally happened.
I believe that the resister went bad on my coil which led to a full 12volts, instead of a controlled lesser amount, running through the coil and overheating it. Once the coil overheated it stopped working, which explains the sudden loss of power on the side of the road.
But why didn't the cruiser fire up once it cooled down? This is prob because my friend and i started screwing with the wires at that point and likely hooked up the igniter incorrectly or something like that.
The melted cover over the pickup is certainly suspicious and the pickup did have some heat damage, but it works now which is interesting. I'll still have to figure out why that happened, perhaps when the coil overheated? I had switched out that pickup for the one in the fj60 distributor assuming that it was dead.
I also assumed that my igniter was fried because i didn't get a spark with a spark tester right after the truck died. the coil was likely still too hot and not working correctly. I had only later measured the coil as good with a multimeter for resistance once it was cooled down on a different day.
I plugged in a fj40 black box type igniter i borrowed to help prevent introducing additional error to the system and the cruiser fired up. I was also in need of a carb rebuild, so starting was problematic and a fair amount of cranking.
The cruiser was parked and the borrowed igniter returned. The carb was rebuilt, then I started messing with the fj60 igniter.
The connections were set up correctly, but there is a slight possibility of error in the types of connectors i had. They are fully insulated plastic spade type connectors with the plastic boot. the plastic boot fit firmly on the stock green plastic plug, so Ed and I are not completely certain that the metal spade was making firm electrical contact into the stock plug. Although it was plugged in, there may not have been a complete electrical connection made.
To further complicate matters my stock fj40 igniter works in my current configuration, but the fj60 igniter does not currently work. Ed found the factory gap spec between the fins on the distributor shaft and the picup blade at 0.2-0.4mm, and the gap in my dizzy may be out of spec in my roadside repair job. I haven't measured it yet. The fj60 igniter may be more sensitive to the impulses received by the pickup being closer or further away than spec. The fj40 type igniter may have looser tolerances, or perhaps i just got lucky that way.
this is what i have so far. Anyone else have an idea?
Why no further than 3mi ?
