Help- slant six won’t start

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Scamp_attack

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I recently purchased a 66 dart with a230 3 speed trans and 225 slant six. The previous owner had a small Block v8 with hei ignition, he pulled the v8, put a slant six in, then sold it to me with the v8 wiring still installed. I converted it to a electronic ignition kit for a slant six and now I can get it to turn over and get power to the coil but not to the spark plugs. The coil is firing but the spark is not reaching the plugs any ideas?
 
Ground the engine real good, sound like just a ground strap is needed
 
All new coil, ballast, battery, ignition controll module, distributor, cap, rotor. Maybe the battery is to small? I went to auto parts store and baught the cheapest one for a stock 66 dart?
 
I already have the ignition module grounded, would I have power to the coil if it wasn’t grounded correctly?

Yes, the coil would have power without the module at all actually.
Since you have power at the coil that tells me that it is capable of firing, but there is nothing to tell it to fire.
That could either be a bad module, failed ballast resistor or a problem with the distributor signal telling the module to fire.

The plug where your distributor connects can be a spot where this signal is lost as well, so crimp those down a bit to make sure they are making contact.
Also, and easy way to tell if the module is working is to disconnect the distributor plug and with the ignition in the run position touch the exposed metal bullet contact to ground and you should get a spark from the coil with each touch.
The exposed contact on the harness side is the one you ground to test this way.
NOT the distributor end of that plug.

After that if you still don't have spark, this page will show how to test everything.
Look at "Engine will not fire" part way down the page.
Dave's Place - Chrysler Electronic Ignition System Test
 
Yes, the coil would have power without the module at all actually.
Since you have power at the coil that tells me that it is capable of firing, but there is nothing to tell it to fire.
That could either be a bad module, failed ballast resistor or a problem with the distributor signal telling the module to fire.

The plug where your distributor connects can be a spot where this signal is lost as well, so crimp those down a bit to make sure they are making contact.
Also, and easy way to tell if the module is working is to disconnect the distributor plug and with the ignition in the run position touch the exposed metal bullet contact to ground and you should get a spark from the coil with each touch.
The exposed contact on the harness side is the one you ground to test this way.
NOT the distributor end of that plug.

After that if you still don't have spark, this page will show how to test everything.
Look at "Engine will not fire" part way down the page.
Dave's Place - Chrysler Electronic Ignition System Test
THANK YOU, I will test later today and let y’all know how it goes. Cheers
 
[QUOTE="Scamp_attack, post: 1972310109, member: 43550" The coil is firing but the spark is not reaching the plugs any ideas?[/QUOTE]

Are you saying that when cranking with the key, you are getting a good hot spark out of the coil tower? IF SO all the grounding/ ecu/ other is OK

If it is "not reaching the plugs" at that point it MUST be in the rotor/ cap/ wires or maybe fouled plugs
 
[QUOTE="Scamp_attack, post: 1972310109, member: 43550" The coil is firing but the spark is not reaching the plugs any ideas?

Are you saying that when cranking with the key, you are getting a good hot spark out of the coil tower? IF SO all the grounding/ ecu/ other is OK

If it is "not reaching the plugs" at that point it MUST be in the rotor/ cap/ wires or maybe fouled plugs[/QUOTE]
Not sure how to test for a proper hot spark out of coil tower, but on my multimeter I aM getting power out of coil when cranking, but not out of spark plug wires when cranking.
 
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