If your car has a coil with a ballast resistor it could be the resistor that's burned out. The easiest thing to do is use a volt/ohm meter to see if you have a dead short in the resistor. The meter should read 0 Ohms. If it reads high you have a short in the resistor. You can either replace it or you can install a newer sport coil like the Pertronix Flamethrower and remove the ballast resistor. That's what I did.
If that's not the problem then check all the wires using the meter. It would tell you which one is shorted out. Dan Hunt --- Chris DeStaffany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I put the new head on and while I'm in there, I'm > cleaning up some of the left over wires that the PO > had every where. Driving around town and all of > sudeen > it stopped. A conncetion had come loose. Anyway, > the > upshot is that I ended up grounding out a wire that > came from the hot side of the coil and lost > ignition. > Got the car home by running a wire from hot side of > battery to plus side of coil. The ignition switch > is > working because the guages come on and the like. > > So, did I burn out the ballast wire. I can find no > evidence that anything overheated. I went out like > I > blew a fuse but the wiring diagram shows none and I > could find none. What do you'all think and what is > my > best remedy. > > Chris DeStaffany > Friday Harbor, Wa > ===== Only two things that are infinite:the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe. __________________________________ SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
