I was having troubles with spark and i traced it down to the ignitor. i need to know if there is a cheap source of them. the dealer told me $426, thats half what i paid for the car!!!!Please help......i'm going to the junkyards tomorrow to search.....anywhere else i should look or call?

oh yeah i called every auto store around here......they all say bow to the extreme prices of the dealer........

 

check eBay. You can find them every once in a whlie for well under $50.00. Andy

 

you can get a whole new dizzy with 2 ignitors for under 50

 

I have 109's and 105's both sitting around somewhere, let me look if I have the type you need or not.

kenn

 

Yea, and you can get them new from PartsAmerica or AutoZone for a lot less than $426, but I know you can get them used for a decent price too.

Rich

 

weird- i just took apart and cleaned up an old distributor off a parts car engine, and finally learned what an ignitor actually is, and a thread appears about them.

btw, how do you tell if they're good or not?

 

OReilly has Borg Warner modules for $170 with a lifetime warranty. Auto Zone has other units for about $20 cheaper but w/o the lifetime warranty. I have aquired a handful of used units over the years with varied success. I would have to say I would try to find some used units at a good price or from someone that you feel will not shaft you if you get a bad module.

 

i have the j-109's. i was thinking about about a whole new dizzy. when i was checking spark it seemed kind of weak and i looked at the ponts and they are a little corroded inside the cap. i started to try to remove the corrosion with a fine grain sand paper and the metal just started to chip off. i think it's time for a replacement. however the trailing were firing and the leading were not. i was swaping things around a bit to test the ignitors and the coils and found that one ignitor was not working. i will look on ebay and also call aroung for a dizzy. i'll keep posting and hopefully i can fix this by tomorrow.

haven't driven it in like two weeks because i was swaping suspension parts............all i want is a little drive sometime this weekend, is that too much to hope for?

thanks for all your help, keep it coming.

 

I would suggest to just go to a junkyard and with a phillips screwdriver remove a couple ignitors and wala ignitors for the price of a drive to the J yard or you can do it the honest way. Or ask a forum member to sell some.

 

get an msd box and you won't have to worry about this anymore. i may have some good ignitors tho that were stockpiled as replacements from when i used to blow mine out all the time. i'll check.

 

The attached image is from the factory service manual.

Rich

 

How about if I give you 4 for $400. anyways, PM me if you need help.

 

well it's 8am here and i'm about to head out to the junkyards. wish me luck. if i don't find anything i will try to buy some off people on here.

funny my next move was buy a new carb and then an msd box...........
thanks again for all the help.

 

In So Cal you should have no trouble finding J109s at the junkyards. Elsewise, you can usually get them on eBay for $20-$30. I keep spares in the glove compartment of each car.

 

thanks 64mgb. just made the circuit thing, and it looks like they're both good. I switched the test lamp with my voltmeter, and got 12.5 volts with each.

 

well i went shopping today at the local junkyard and almost lost my mind.
3 ignitors.........free
1 front mounted oil cooler.........14.99
1 oil pedestal.......4.00
1 second gen igniton coil.......10.00
1 perfect taillight......14.99
1 dome light cover.......0.99
1 light actuator arm.....5.00


taking a trip to the local junkyards and finding 8 first gens, two second gens, and a turbo 2.........priceless

needless to say my ignition problem is fixed as well as a few others. thank you all.

 

Make sure to pick up some heat sink compound at Radio Shack. It's what they use to bond a heat sink to a chip. Your ignitors use the distributor as their heatsink, and they'll overheat if they're not bonded.

 

You ARE lucky: getting an intact dome light cover and a headlight actuator arm ($16 at mazdatrix). I hope the nylon bushing is intact.

 

oh yes the bushings are good. i think the dome light was a sign that everything is coming together....................soon the 7 will be ready.

 

thata what you get for living in Cali.
we have nothing around here in junkyards.