Have you checked the HT coil wire? Pull the coil wire from the center of
the coil and attach a timing light to the center of the coil. If you don't
have a timing light you can take a known good plug wire, plug one end into
the coil and place the other end close to a ground. You should get a
light/spark. If there is still no spark, the coil is probably bad. Did you
hook up the small wires correctly? If they are reversed, the coil won't
work either.
Pete
My friend Nick Klein had his BJ8 quit on him a block from his house two
weeks
ago, and he can't get it to start again. He gets power to the coil -- so
everything including points is working up to that point-- but no power is
flowing
back to the distributor, so no spark. He swapped the coil with another he
had
around, but with no luck.
What test(s) are suggested to determine if a coil is bad? Could it be
possible that both coils were bad, or is there some other potential culprit?
(as one
possibility, I suggested disconnecting black/white wire from battery
disconnect/ground at point where it is connected from chassis harness to
main harness,
but he hasn't tried that yet.)
Cheers
Gary
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