If your car has a coil with a ballast resistor it
could be the resistor that's burned out. The easiest
thing to do is use a volt/ohm meter to see if you have
a dead short in the resistor. The meter should read 0
Ohms. If it reads high you have a short in the
resistor. You can either replace it or you can
install a newer sport coil like the Pertronix
Flamethrower and remove the ballast resistor. That's
what I did.
If that's not the problem then check all the wires
using the meter. It would tell you which one is
shorted out.
Dan Hunt
--- Chris DeStaffany <destaff@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So I put the new head on and while I'm in there, I'm
> cleaning up some of the left over wires that the PO
> had every where. Driving around town and all of
> sudeen
> it stopped. A conncetion had come loose. Anyway,
> the
> upshot is that I ended up grounding out a wire that
> came from the hot side of the coil and lost
> ignition.
> Got the car home by running a wire from hot side of
> battery to plus side of coil. The ignition switch
> is
> working because the guages come on and the like.
>
> So, did I burn out the ballast wire. I can find no
> evidence that anything overheated. I went out like
> I
> blew a fuse but the wiring diagram shows none and I
> could find none. What do you'all think and what is
> my
> best remedy.
>
> Chris DeStaffany
> Friday Harbor, Wa
>
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