Killed Two Distributors and Don't Know Why!

I re-read your post.........your trouble is not necessarily the distributor. I posted some troubleshooting details on these "someplace.............."

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I hit reply to your thread, then deleted above this part. I was wondering what part or wire you are referring to here when you said "Take first one", here highlighted below... first one what?:


If not, unhook distributor. Take first one, then the other pickup clip leads, and "tap tap" ground them at the battery connection. Coil should make 1 spark each time you do so.

Do I take either one of the leads from the coil? If so which one is the first one? Do I just pick one and then the other? If so why would the neg spark?

If not, try another coil. If that does not fix it replace the ECU

Also what is "AFU" ? All F'ed Up? lol?

IF you hook it all up and it WORKS, then there is something AFU in the car harness. SUSPECT a bad ECU connector OR a bad DISTRIBUTOR connector

One more thing is what ever did this killed two distributors... why would a bad coil kill a distributor, or why would a bad ECU kill a dist? I can see the Ballast killing it if it were bad and over volted the dist. Do you think that it is the most likely part that is bad? Plus I replaced the ballast, coil and the ECU before I put the second dist in. Why would it do the same thing? I did use old parts, but it just seems strange that the same thing would happen.

Thanks a mil...