How can you test or tell if a Coil gone bad?

 

ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Good answer good answer!!!!!! What ohm should it be reading? I don't know O well hopefully someone does.

 

start the car and have your sister take the coil wire off the distributor. If she yells and calls ya a *******.. than its good.. lol

you can take the wire off the distributor and put near something metal (ie strutt bolts) and you should see it throw a pretty good spark!

if its week.. replace it!

 

Damn! good thing my sister is not here because I so would had done that. Anyways when running the test, the car needs to be on right? So, I need to be careful pulling that wire or else I would be saying Damn you an *******!. lol

 

Specs for testing are in the FSM.

 

what is the FSM?

 

never got around to learning about coils yet, so what kind of coil should i buy, i think mine are weak because when i looked in them, rust came out hahahha

 

LOL, with your post count, I didn't think that would need an explaination. Factory Service Manual, link is in my sig.

 

Oh, lol well.... I like to be sure that is what you are telling me. lol hehe Thanks for the links!

 

In 2nd gen stickies is a list of the most common abbreviations. The FSM has one too, but that list may not be in the 1st gen FSMs, I know it's in the 2nd gen ones.

 

1.35 ohm +/- 10 %

You take a reading across the two nuts.

So do you have a meter and do you know how to use it?

Most often though, it's the ignitor.

 

I can read a meter if I had one but is been a long time already. hehe I just want to make sure I don't need to replace this. I already upgraded my Alternator to 2nd gen one but I having a weir bounce on the RMP niddle when ever is taking to much power drain. I hold the brake in place with the headlights up and it still makes the niddle go wacko on me. I even clean most connection including the starter connections but I see no results from this.

Next I am planing of replacing the headlights harness and headlamps with good onces. I am not sure if that will fix my problem.

 

Check your main ground wires from the battery. You may have some cables that have gone bad, especially if they are the original cables.

 

Sure thing Dom, I will take a look at that. I might just end up buying a new ground cable if they are bad or old.

 

Well, the gound wire appear to be new so, I guess that was replace when they installed the new battery before I got the car. I any other ideas as were I should maybe look?

 

The oem positve battery cable is aluminum. They have a tendency to corrode internally, under the sheathing, where you can't see it.

Needle, not niddle, lol. Niddling is something entirely different.