Re: No spark?

[Raldel@domain.elided]

Greg,
    If you are using NGK plugs, I can tell you what is happening. I have 
become a semi-expert on non firing issues due to using NGK plugs. Mine were 
fuel soaked from rich carbs. As it turns out, NGK uses a particularly porous 
ceramic insulator and they are prone to soak up fuel. I received some very 
good advice from this list telling me this. The advice was to clean the plugs 
with carb cleaner, bake them in the oven at 250 degrees for a couple of hours 
and try them. After practically rebuilding my ignition system, this did the 
trick. I have since installed some Bosch plus 4's. 
      Randy Long
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In a message dated 8/3/2002 5:02:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, greg@domain.elided 
writes:


> Wondering if anyone has seen this and can offer some advice.
> 
> My 74 Spider doesn't want to start -- appears not to be getting spark.
> We've pulled a plug and verified we are not seeing spark there, and it
> appears that there is virtually no spark coming from the coil. I replaced
> the coil with one I had extra (condition unknown) and we at least saw a
> tiny spark, but still not enough to start the car. Fuel appears OK -- at
> least we can smell it.
> 
> The old coil appears to have continuity from the case to both leads. The
> other one did not.
> 
> There should be a noticeable spark coming from the coil to the distributor
> right?
> 
> Any other ideas, or areas to investigate to get it back up and running?
> 
> Greg
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