hey all, so on the way back from SSX the ignition seems to have died in my 79, i made it to the gym, 10miles from home and then no start...

i had enough tools to see that theres no spark, but i didnt have a voltmeter or testlight in my gymbag, so i had to stop there.

the car has the original points distributor, points, condensors, cap, rotor, plugs and wires have maybe 1500miles on em...

any ideas? i get no spark leading or trailing

 

Use a jumper wire from battery + to both coil's + terminals. if it runs, then you know what it is.

 

You said no start. Do you have spark when the key goes to the On position? In order to test this you need to crank the engine and then let go of the key and watch the spark plug. If it sparks, you have a bad 'start' wire. I believe it is yellow and black.

Did you shut if off and it didn't restart? Or did it simply die while driving?

 

update, i think wacky's right... no power to the coils, thats the "distributor relay"?

jeff; i pulled the dizzy and spun it by hand and got nothing

 

"ignition relay"

 

well it runs now, dunno exactly why. seems like the points werent working? i regapped em, and it fired right up?

 

Maybe you didn't tighten the points down good earlier.

Loose points == no sparky if they get far enough apart.

I don't miss points and dwell meters at all :-)

 

yeah i rebuilt it, too see if i could, now that i know i can, i'd upgrade

 

22.6 mpg for the SS trip, thats not bad!

 

And why didnt you meet up with me??? I brought the cig lighter assembly and a few goodies for you

 

cause we're retarded... i'm amazed you remembered though, thats damn cool!