Stranded in Little Egg Harbor NJ
So I couldn't get the reluctor off to replace the magnetic pickup. My understanding is it should be held on by 2 roll pins, but mine had some kind of wire snap ring.
Guys at Napa found me a new distributor, at another store, so went and got that (the guy I bought the Subaru from brought me).
Stabbed it in, no spark.
These 2 guys asked if I needed help, we bench tested the old coil, it's bad, and bench tested the new coil, it's good.
Very long story short, when I crank it now, no spark, when I let of crank coil wire sparks, and when I turn key off coil wire sparks.
Me thinks that means the ignition module is bad, which is the only thing left to replace, which I recently replaced already, so I had ruled it out early on.
The score now is the coil was bad, the module appears to be bad as well, and I'm sleeping in the Wawa parking lot.
A FBBO member is graciously bringing me a module in the morning.
Today has been full of crap, but also incredibly generous people.
I got up at 1am, left at 2am, drove 5hrs, loaded the car, stopped at Wawa at 8:30.
That'll be 24hrs+ by tomorrow morning, when hopefully I can go home.
So I couldn't get the reluctor off to replace the magnetic pickup. My understanding is it should be held on by 2 roll pins, but mine had some kind of wire snap ring.
Guys at Napa found me a new distributor, at another store, so went and got that (the guy I bought the Subaru from brought me).
Stabbed it in, no spark.
These 2 guys asked if I needed help, we bench tested the old coil, it's bad, and bench tested the new coil, it's good.
Very long story short, when I crank it now, no spark, when I let of crank coil wire sparks, and when I turn key off coil wire sparks.
Me thinks that means the ignition module is bad, which is the only thing left to replace, which I recently replaced already, so I had ruled it out early on.
The score now is the coil was bad, the module appears to be bad as well, and I'm sleeping in the Wawa parking lot.
A FBBO member is graciously bringing me a module in the morning.
Today has been full of crap, but also incredibly generous people.
I got up at 1am, left at 2am, drove 5hrs, loaded the car, stopped at Wawa at 8:30.
That'll be 24hrs+ by tomorrow morning, when hopefully I can go home.