Blish
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I took the newport out for a drive sunday (fixed the radiator). Car ran beautifully. I got to my freinds house, cut the car off, stayed probably 30 minutes, went to crank it back up and i had no cranking. But good power. Couldnt find an issue so i assumed it was either a starter or a starter relay, possibly wiring. It was late so he took me home and I came back monday with a stick, wiring, a new relay, and a mopar mini starter i had laying around. I found a loose connection. Fired it up and ran smooth!
Shut the hood and it started skipping then it died. went to crank it back up figuring it was cold (even though I burnt my hand on the key switch from the bible belts 110 degree average temp) and i killed the battery trying to crank it. Great. Got my jumper cables out and found that they were broken. Glorious. So i grabbed the trailer and came back and towed it home. I put a new battery in it and drove it off the trailer, idled fine, went to take it down the road to see if I could get it to quit again, figuring maybe i just had some weird wiring issue, or maybe the car was just heat soaked. I hadnt travelled out my driveway when it died on me again!
The voltmeter showed I had no power at the coil. upon inspection i found a connector had some exposed wiring and appeared to be loose. So I took the connector off cut back to good wire, crimped a new connector on, and viola! She ran again! Switched it off, went inside to get my backpack, came out the car had died and wouldnt start again. Great.
Cue today. I have ~5.5 volts at the coil and the coil wire. If i scratch around i can get .5 volts at the center contact in the distributor, .5 at the rotor and .5 at the spark plug connector. I took the cap off and the rotor off and connected the coil wire and touched the rotor to a point and to the coil contact inside the cap. I then put my voltage tester on it.
Could this be a bad coil? How does it run with half a volt going to the spark plug? And what would cause it to run sometimes and die at other times?
I will include pictures next chance I get. Its 10 PM at the time I post this.
Thanks in advance, -Paul
Shut the hood and it started skipping then it died. went to crank it back up figuring it was cold (even though I burnt my hand on the key switch from the bible belts 110 degree average temp) and i killed the battery trying to crank it. Great. Got my jumper cables out and found that they were broken. Glorious. So i grabbed the trailer and came back and towed it home. I put a new battery in it and drove it off the trailer, idled fine, went to take it down the road to see if I could get it to quit again, figuring maybe i just had some weird wiring issue, or maybe the car was just heat soaked. I hadnt travelled out my driveway when it died on me again!
The voltmeter showed I had no power at the coil. upon inspection i found a connector had some exposed wiring and appeared to be loose. So I took the connector off cut back to good wire, crimped a new connector on, and viola! She ran again! Switched it off, went inside to get my backpack, came out the car had died and wouldnt start again. Great.
Cue today. I have ~5.5 volts at the coil and the coil wire. If i scratch around i can get .5 volts at the center contact in the distributor, .5 at the rotor and .5 at the spark plug connector. I took the cap off and the rotor off and connected the coil wire and touched the rotor to a point and to the coil contact inside the cap. I then put my voltage tester on it.
Could this be a bad coil? How does it run with half a volt going to the spark plug? And what would cause it to run sometimes and die at other times?
I will include pictures next chance I get. Its 10 PM at the time I post this.
Thanks in advance, -Paul