Hi Everybody, I bought an 88 240 wagon 2 weeks ago. Drove it home 60 miles and it was rough idling and taking off but ran good at higher RPM's at 65 - 70 miles per hour. The other day I did a tune up, plugs. distributer cap & rotor. Plugs looked real bad, Didn't change wires, they appeared good. Drove around the block a few times, ran beautiful. Yesterday I get in to start and it justs turns over but doesn't start. I have no spark at the plugs, the coil appears to produce power - I got a heck of a shock. That 25 amp fuse in the engine compartment appears O.K. It's a B230F engine. Does anyone have suggestions of what I should check next? Would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Ed

Myself, always suspicious of "the last thing done" on cars, I'd look at the cap and rotor again and make sure nothing cracked or came out of place.
With this car, the only way for you to have spark at the coil, but not at the plugs, is for there to be a bad wire, or for the cap to have come off, or something similarly odd.

I'll give you a possibility- if the rotor was not seated fully, and was left too high on the dist shaft (because they're SUPER tight!) it could have damaged the carbon button on the cap, and now no spark can get anywhere. Another new cap would be needed. It can't be a bad timing belt if the coil produces spark when cranked- the pickup MUST be turning to trigger the coil. If the dist is turning, the timing belt is fine.

There is a connector near the coil, a grey two-pin thing providing power to the + side of coil. Make sure it's seated- but again, no power would mean no spark, so it's probably not this.

The fuel pump relay, as mentioned, is a likely candidate as well. Replace it with new/used/resoldered relay and see if that helps. It's under the right side of the dashboard, against the firewall. Should have a date code- they're lucky to last 6-8 years.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: Roterande Fläkt Och Drivremmar!

Most typically will be the fuel relay. Located under the dash on the passenger side. Drop down the underdash covering and about where the passengers left toes would point you will see a white relay approx 2" square. You can take the plastic cap off and resolder the joints to fix the cracks that occur in the factory solder. There are numerous posts in the archives for this and you will find all the instructions there too. (Credit Don Foster with the fix).