Hello ,
boy do i need some help.
i have a 93 ford festiva gl automatic ( 2 door)
up to this point it has run great and i really mean it . nice and smooth. its at 144000 and all its maintenance has been kept up by the previous owner.
the problem started with driving down the road and the engine just shut down as if you had turned off the the engine and pulled out the key.
an older wiser person in the area said the first thing to test for is spark as he passed by so he pulled the lead wire off the coil and held it near the frame while i cranked it.
he said its not developing spark. later i heard that coils can develope partial power but not enough so i replaced the coil and the cap and rotor
the reason i did the cap and rotor was because after fiddling around with the rotor and cleaning it off, the car started and ran long enough to get it back home.
which led to me replacing them and after which it immediately fired up again nice and smooth but while i was letting it idle , it then shut right off . no sputtering wheezing or anything , just shut off like before and no amount of fiddling has helped not even the replacement of the coil.
there are really only 3 things i can currently think of maybe 4 to try
1 new set of lead wires
2 the little black controller chip like thing near the coil (cost about $100 new)
3 the points under the rotor ( dont know cost but dont have the tools to work on it so might have to buy a replacement that would hurt me financially)
4 some part of the electrical wiring ( i sure hope not because that could really be time consuming and or expensive )
i do not have a volt meter currently and i dont know how to properly test for spark or anything.
oh it cranks fine as far as the starter engaging and the battery is concerned though.
any help would be greatly appreciated
boy do i need some help.
i have a 93 ford festiva gl automatic ( 2 door)
up to this point it has run great and i really mean it . nice and smooth. its at 144000 and all its maintenance has been kept up by the previous owner.
the problem started with driving down the road and the engine just shut down as if you had turned off the the engine and pulled out the key.
an older wiser person in the area said the first thing to test for is spark as he passed by so he pulled the lead wire off the coil and held it near the frame while i cranked it.
he said its not developing spark. later i heard that coils can develope partial power but not enough so i replaced the coil and the cap and rotor
the reason i did the cap and rotor was because after fiddling around with the rotor and cleaning it off, the car started and ran long enough to get it back home.
which led to me replacing them and after which it immediately fired up again nice and smooth but while i was letting it idle , it then shut right off . no sputtering wheezing or anything , just shut off like before and no amount of fiddling has helped not even the replacement of the coil.
there are really only 3 things i can currently think of maybe 4 to try
1 new set of lead wires
2 the little black controller chip like thing near the coil (cost about $100 new)
3 the points under the rotor ( dont know cost but dont have the tools to work on it so might have to buy a replacement that would hurt me financially)
4 some part of the electrical wiring ( i sure hope not because that could really be time consuming and or expensive )
i do not have a volt meter currently and i dont know how to properly test for spark or anything.
oh it cranks fine as far as the starter engaging and the battery is concerned though.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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