The spark is all gone

[Giuseppe Barone]

I have an 82 K5 and it suddenly died while backing out of the drive way. I changed the cap and rotor, pickup coil, voltage regulator, and ignition coil...and i still don't have spark. I'm stumped

 

[Blue85]

Marriage counseling?

Did you check for power to the coil?

 

[Giuseppe Barone]

Marriage counseling?

How would i check that.

 

[Big Ray]

ensure you did not forget the ground strap between the cap and coil...like I did many moons back.

 

[4X4HIGH]

I have an 82 K5 and it suddenly died while backing out of the drive way. I changed the cap and rotor, pickup coil, voltage regulator, and ignition coil...and i still don't have spark. I'm stumped

Did you change the ignition module under the cap or is that what you're calling the pick-up coil? I always like to replace the ignition module AND pick-up coil at the same time.

 

[Giuseppe Barone]

ensure you did not forget the ground strap between the cap and coil...like I did many moons back.

Noo i defiantly putbthat on

 

[K85 Octane]

Coil fuse? Do you have 12v going to the HEI?

 

[Giuseppe Barone]

I got it! The coil i replaced was bad...put a new one on....IT was bad. So replaced it again and boom fired right up.

 

[Phil513]

Man, it's hard enough to troubleshoot stuff when new parts out of the box are bad. Doesn't make one feel good about carrying spares.

 

[K85 Octane]

No kidding

 

[dyeager535]

Man, it's hard enough to troubleshoot stuff when new parts out of the box are bad. Doesn't make one feel good about carrying spares.

There is a coil test that can be performed with a multimeter as I recall.

If you can't test a component on the rig before taking it as a spare, checking via alternative methods is certainly not a bad idea, if possible.

For the trail, I'd think a complete distributor (known good) to be infinitely more valuable than the individual components, especially based on cost.

 

[Giuseppe Barone]

I feel ya but in total i spent about 70-80 bucks on parts a new distributor was 140 i saved buying individual parts.

New finding though.....my truck won't start with my + to + and - to - i have to cross them + to - and vise versa
With them crossed it fires up