So I inherited this cute little '89 Ford Festiva that had been sitting for two years. The word on it was that the ignition module (mounted inside the distributor on this model) was bad. We checked everything else out and agreed that this was probably the problem. As the module somehow costs way more than a remanufactured distributor with the module in it, I bought a reman distributor and put it in.
The car started up and ran great for about 5 min, then suddenly quit. I checked the battery connection and got it to turn over again, but not start. We checked and found that there was no spark at the sparkplugs. We then checked the coil and all the wires - all of them checked out. We have power at the distributor.
So all we could come up with is that the module is somehow bad already, possibly defective? though it's strange that it started up at first and then went out.
I'm wondering if anyone has any insight as to some other problem that could be causing the module to go bad? or maybe we're wrong about it being bad?
The auto parts store was accomodating enough to order me another distributor and exchange it, but I want to get some other opinions before putting it in, in case some other problem might zap the module right away, since it was bad when i got the car, and the new one i put in seemed to go out right away.
Any ideas?
The car started up and ran great for about 5 min, then suddenly quit. I checked the battery connection and got it to turn over again, but not start. We checked and found that there was no spark at the sparkplugs. We then checked the coil and all the wires - all of them checked out. We have power at the distributor.
So all we could come up with is that the module is somehow bad already, possibly defective? though it's strange that it started up at first and then went out.
I'm wondering if anyone has any insight as to some other problem that could be causing the module to go bad? or maybe we're wrong about it being bad?
The auto parts store was accomodating enough to order me another distributor and exchange it, but I want to get some other opinions before putting it in, in case some other problem might zap the module right away, since it was bad when i got the car, and the new one i put in seemed to go out right away.
Any ideas?
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