Hello, While driving down the highway, my expo just died and would not
start. The injectors are getting fuel. I pulled the dist. cap and
found that the contact that contacts the rotor from the coil had broken
off and fell into the bottom of the cap. I assumed this was the
problem and replaced the cap and rotor, but it still will not start.
Just to rule them out, I also replaced the plugs and wires including
the coil wire to the cap. I pulled one of the plugs and had and turned
it over to see if there was spark at the plug and there was not. I am
leaning toward a possible bad coil, but need to know how to check it
first.
Thanks,
Jason
Stewart DIBBS - 26 Jan 2007 23:57 GMT
> Hello, While driving down the highway, my expo just died and would not
> start. The injectors are getting fuel. I pulled the dist. cap and
> found that the contact that contacts the rotor from the coil had broken
> off and fell into the bottom of the cap.
If your 92 has the 4G64 SOHC-8v engine (plugs on the FRONT of the head), I
seem to recall that it has a separate coil under intake plenum chamber, and
a "normal" distributor. Something else in the distributor or the coil or
even the ECU could be faulty.
If your 92 has the 4G64 SOHC-16v engine (plugs on the TOP of the head), then
the distributor contains the coil, and its the most likely cause of the
problem. Check with a wrecker for replacement parts. An exchange rebuilt
unit runs to about C$400.

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