Cutting out under load

[Mew]

If you disconnect the coil to dizzy lead at the dizzy end and place it in the lift eye of the engine, does it just spark once when you turn the engine over or does it spark repeatedly?

[Darkc0re]

it just sparks once

[Darkc0re]

do you think the coil is at fault? i found a spade connection on the back of the distributer that has no wire going to it? should this be connected to something?

[Mew]

If it just sparks once then that sounds like the hall sender. Exactly what happened to me when my hall sender went!

[Mew]

Well, i say when it went.......... looking back now it may have just been the connection. Give it a jiggle on the dizzy to see if that starts it, or even pull the rubber boot up that goes around the 3 wires then have a go.

[Darkc0re]

have a working hall sender on a spare dizzy on a spare engine, going to try that now.

[mattneck(Beavis)]

If it just sparks once then that sounds like the hall sender. Exactly what happened to me when my hall sender went!

Happened on ym amtes corsa, exact same symptoms, to the finest detail..

New dizzy was the key in the end, was an easy swap from a scrap 

[Darkc0re]

just changed the hall sender over from another dizzy and still having the same problems could it be the coil?

[Darkc0re]

sorted now, schoolboy error, put the dizzy back in 180 degrees out  :embarassed: So it was definately the hall sender as it seems fixed now, just took it for a long drive and its run fine, the old hall sender looked very scored and manky

[mattneck(Beavis)]

sorted now, schoolboy error, put the dizzy back in 180 degrees out  :embarassed: So it was definately the hall sender as it seems fixed now, just took it for a long drive and its run fine, the old hall sender looked very scored and manky

apart from the 180deg, as i say same story we had