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Coil Question 200

posted by  Brickish on  Fri May 20 09:47 CST 2011
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Interesting Evening:

I returned last night from an awesome week of beer drinking in Portland Oregon. I jumped in my volvo, fired her up, ran for 20 seconds...died. Couldn't restart.

After a few minutes of the obvious I looked for spark coming from the coil by grounding it while turning it over. Nothing.

After more futzing around I noticed that the coil bracket was loose enough for the coil to be slightly loose. It had slid far enough down to where the negative & positive terminals were touching the bracket and possibly grounding it. I slid the coil up an inch or so, and she fired right up.

I thought the coil ran to ground already, so I'm surprised this ended with a no spark situation. Anybody have ever seen this before? I recommend everyone check the tightness of their coil holder!

Sidenote: In my haste to figure this out (it was now 3 am), I damaged my LH 25A blade fuse and had to crimp the wire together because I was without a spare. I drove home 55 miles like this and she ran fine. Could I have damaged anything?

Cheers,
-Greg
--
1984 245GL 96,600 original miles






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