85 C10 Died

[03blackburb]

1985 C10 5.7 died the other night. Checked it out and no spark to any cylinders. Checked out the coil pack on top of the distributer and it was shorted. Replaced the cap, rotor and coil pack. Voltage is good to the distributor. Got it all back together with the new parts and still no spark.

Ideas??

[ryank1]

check the ignition module under the cap

[Wingnutt]

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[03blackburb]

tested the pickup coil and it checked fine.

Had the ignition module tested and checked out fine.

checked the capacitor and it also checked fine.

the ground is good.

Verfied all the fuses, which checked out fine.

[mcreyaufmiller]

Check the power wire going to the distributor. This is a good time to start tracing the wires in reverse to find a short or something of that kind.

[03blackburb]

Already did. There is 12 volts at the distributor with the key on the run position and cranking.

[mcreyaufmiller]

If you wern't so far away.......... If you have power to the dist., but no spark. I would go back tot he module in the Dist. Sometimes you can test them and they test okay, but installed they will not work. And not to sound like a butt, but did you check the power wires to the coil to make sure they were good, and connected?

 

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