Timing marks. abf

[sleeper16]

you mean the spark disappear form the coil?


what i found the other day with a helper was while cranking i had no spark on number one then when i turn the ignition off i got one spark (not every time though)


i dont have a scope..or not that i know of anyway. what would i expect to see from the output jumping voltage from 0 to 1v for example?

[danny_p]

the random spark with turning the ingnition off  is just one of those things the coil pack sometimes dose,   when crancking you should get a steady supply of sparks  but if they stop after about 5 seconds it means the ecu has immobilised itself. 

when you say no spark on number 1 do you mean no sparks at all ? 

[sleeper16]

im runing the mk2 coil with tci unit  not the mk3 coil pack

when i plug a plug lead into the coil and turn the engine over i get a spark about 5 or so a second(maybe more my eyes arnt that acurate)


if i plug the king lead back into the coil and put a plug in number one ht lead and earth i get nothing then a few times iv got nothing untill i stop cranking then i get one as i come off the cranking onto ignition

[danny_p]

mk2 coil and tci pack behave the same as mk3 coil pack  just in one lump instead of two.

if you have another swap the king  lead and dizzt cap  just to make sure they arnt playing silly buggers

[sleeper16]

okie dokie. i have had it running with the new leads and cap. but ill try old ones just to eliminate them. ill do it in morning as im off to work in five mins

[sleeper16]

tried the old cap and leads and same issue as before.


no spark at plugs but spark on king lead  getting four sparks per second from the coil but nothing from the plugs


so either the timing of the rotor arm isnt matching the spark or somethings telling the coil to spark at the wrong time

the spark patern from coil is like 12....34 over the period of a second

[danny_p]

ummmm

give shout on mobile  if want think i pm'd you the number ,   hell of a lot easyer for me to work out whats going wrong that way and just pissing about with GRP in the garage today so will actualy have signal as well 

[sleeper16]

yeah got your number only realized i had a pm yesterday 


not at the garage at the moment mainly because im sick of the sight of it lol thought id try and work out steps to try in my head/ on pc before bringing myself round to actually doing anything more


but when im there ill give you a bell if your not busy, if its any easier 

[danny_p]

finding strange faults is hard enough when not there,  at least phone is a bit easyer than by message

[sleeper16]

well bit of an update whilst i was changing the cap back to the new one i found that the cables from the plug had snapped so i took dizzy out and repaired the cables just by soldering little bits in, now im getting spark at the plugs with and without the dizzy plug connected.


but still wont start.

danny i tried to ring earlier  just after i found the faults with the dizzy just to let you know but it went straight to answer machine so thought you might have gone home or something