no spark

Asked by dnealey Oct 19, 2011 at 02:32 PM about the 1989 Ford Festiva

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 89 injected festiva that started stalling  then would run 5 min or more and quit now no spark anytime i have replaced the dist with a new beck arney still nothing ohmed the coil ok new cap and rotor checked f usable links inertia sw and discovered it was bypassed i have power on both sides of coil i have looked high and low  ?????????????

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papa answered 12 years ago

the coil itself could be bad,just because it is getting power dont mean it is sending any out.

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