Replaced coil, coil pickup, wires, cap and rotor. I have spark coming out of coil now but still nothing coming out of the distributor. Any help ou r suggestions.

 

What do you mean nothing coming from dist?
How are you testing it?
Is the distributor cleaned up inside? They can build up a lot of dirt

 

I put in new coil pick up, new cap, wires and rotor. Power coming out of coil but nothing coming out of distributor. Put ohm meter to DC and 13 when key on 11 and some change when cranked coming out of coil. Put ohm meter on plug wire off distributor and nothing. Also tested with spark plug no spark

 

Are you having someone turn the engine over while your watching the spark plug? And you have the plug grounded like to the engine?

 

Yes I had wife start engine while I had spark plug grounded. Also tried to ohm it and nothing. I'm bout 300 into trying to fix it. Had timing chain and gears replaced 6 months ago, the timing cover was leaking oil bad so I figured while they are there might as well do that. So any suggestions?

 

I would pull that distributer cap and take a good look at it and the rotor. May be wrong cap and rotor, bad new wires. Try with an old wire. Or try with a Known good wire off a different vehicle. And it's always better to purchase OEM .

 

Was doing this with old parts and replaced so using original parts to fix original problems doesn't make sense but thank u

 

I know what you are saying. But try a Known good wire and Ser. To me it sounds like a bad cap and rotor. I installed a Napa cap for one day. It was cheap. Auto zone crap. OEM the best always. And you can get OEM online through Toyota mailed to you. Usually cheaper than the dealers list price. Heck they still have New carburetor listed. Sure some parts are discontinued but I was amazed just how much was available. I just ordered 2 intake valves and one exhaust valve. I'm doing most of the work myself except the machine work. It easy.

 

The ones I pit on got from rock auto. They said OEM. So idk maybe gap wrong on new pickup. That's what alot of ppl are saying. Thank you for ur help

 

Could the timing be off? Idk what else it could be. Gonna try the gap first. But just trying to get a handle on this. Died when goin down road then bout an hr later went back fired right up. Next time I drove it to work made it there then at lunch died again and would not start. Replaced coil, coil pickup, cap, wires and rotor. I have power out of coil and nothing out of distributor. I am at a loss. I do not understand this at all

 

Timing will not have any effect on the spark. No spark no run period. Are you sure the rotor is ok? Pull the cap and crank the engine and see if the rotor rotates. The coil feeds power to the distributer cap and then that rotor sends it to each plug as it rotates. I have seen new caps and rotors that were faulty. Look inside the cap for anything that looks like a carbon pencil mark. That would be a hairline crack.

 

Do a end to end continuity check on the 2 wires between the coil and distributor

 

I just spaced out coil pickup and made sure it was right. Put in another rotor from napa and still nothing. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

It's probably something simple. A broken wire.bad ground. But it sounds more like a bad distributer. But even a bad one should give a bit of spark. Coil wire pulled off distributer you said sparks? If so then some where in that distributer, pickup coil, but you should not get a spark at all if the pickup coil is bad.

 

Check all your wires for continuity like other ppl have said.
Also engine grounds should be clean.

Theres another thread just a couple down abt a no spark condition with good info. Im assuming you qlready read it but i believe in a pinch of redundancy


What it sounds like is you have a faulty component that will probably go out 100% sometime soon. When your engine died was it a misfire sort of stutter and shut down or was it like on then right off all of a sudden?

Also by process of elimination it seems like something internal in the dist. If you replaced evertthing else with quality parts.

 

There is 13 coming out of coil when key turned on and a lil over 11 when cranked coming out of coil. Nothing coming out of distributor. Replaced coil pickup and rotor and spaced it to .010. Still nothing coming out of distributor. No spark at all. I do not understand it. Is there anything else I can do?

 

Get a new distributor? Do some electrical tests on the one you have.
If youve tested coil and coil to dist wire then your dead end is the distributor.

 

Check the other no spark thread. 13swords posted info abt distributor spacing which might help.

 

Thank you. I will try that. Sort of new to electric issues. Just was hoping it wasn't timing cuz I had an oil leak bout 6 months ago and had new gears and chain put on. Set me back an old Chevy cab and a half that had bad heater core. Got rid of it instead of my toy. But if distributor doesn't fix it what's next?

 

I just went back and re read all of your posts. Sounds like it was running until it got hot. Then cooled down and run again. That's usually a sign of a wire break. Probably broken in the insulation so you can't see it. Use your meter and recheck all the wire, grounds too. If nothing else try jumping the wires with temp new wire, one at a time. Especially coil to distributer. Those wires get moved around a lot. Loom at each wire for some kind of a kink or pinch mark. Clean all connectors with a spray electrical contact cleaner.