So say you jump start the car (85 GS) and there's this huge arc on the positive terminal. Now the car cranks, gets fuel, but no spark. What could be wrong? It was dark and I couldn't check much, but my guess was it fried the coil/ignitors. I did pull the distributor cap and it looked ok, rotor looked ok too. Not great, but ok.

 

chech all the fuses under the dash and then start with the basics do you have juice going to the igniters?

 

Check the fuseable links under the hood.

 

yea, check the fusible links, the center one is for the engine, the other two, your two headlamps. and you may need to replace the ignitors.

 

Thanks guys. I'm going to try it this weekend and see what happens.

 

Did you figure it out? Have a similar situation

 

This was from 12 years ago. I doubt the member is still around but you never know I guess. You might want to start your own post once you have posted enough to get answers.

 

and his last log in was 2017.