Michael, My Vette was doing the same thing a while back. I went through 3 coils, and 3 HEI distributors.
It turned out to be a bad distributor, the coils where fine. The first two I tried were "rebuilt" from AutoZone and Checker. The third was from Performance Distributors and when I dropped it in, the engine fired up instantly. I would suggest trying a distributor from a running car and see if that works. No more cheap crap from AutoZone or Checker for me. cYa- Herb Lumpp 1966 El Camino, LS6, 6 spd ACES 3509 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Ishee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:05 PM > > Ok for those you of who have been helping me to get my car to start once > again here is an update. I finally got an ohm meter and measured the coil > resistance the best i could with the lack of knowledge i had about the > machine and the process in conjunction with the horrible instructions. All > in all i managed to gather this about my Accel super coil. The ohms who > jump up (once again dont know how much because it would just quickly flast > up and didnt know too well how to translate the read-out) in number when you > would first turn the key to start the car then if you kept on trying to > crank the meter who read the same amount as it would with the car off. So > this is really all i gathered from the process and someone mentioned i > should have .82 resistance with this coil however i never got anywhere near > this number. With the meter set to measure under 1 ohm the screen would > read anywhere from 3 to 5 flickering back and forth then jump to about 20 > when first start to crank the back to 3 or 5. I never quite understood this > as how the meter was supposed to read under 1 and i never got a decimal. > Any ways so i still think that the coil is the weak link and possibly a new > one will start the car. I did go to the parts store to buy another one but > they gave me the same one i took back which i think i might have shot. > Anyways sorry for the long post and any suggestions and advice is welcome > and thanks for all the help so far. > Michael ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
