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Please help, car is not starting and then does and then doesn't...Mr. Foster?? 200 1988

It sounds as though you have determined that when it does not start, it is not getting any spark, right?

If it is not getting spark. You may need to get a voltmeter and start working your way through the ignition system until you find the problem. I'm not familiar with your particular system, but somewhere you have to have a magnetic sensor that initates a low voltage pulse as the engine turns. That pulse goes to an electronic controller that tweeks the timing and turns the weak pulse to a strong on/off DC current that goes to the primary side of the coil. Every time the DC current shuts off, the coil fires a spark that goes to the distributor cap, through the rotor and down a spark plug wire.

You'd better get a manual while you are buying that voltmeter rather than trying to work from my vague description.

Most likely scenaro from my VERY limited experience: The electronics that (I think) in your model are in the distributor. Junk yard distributors are not expensive and can be replaced in minutes.






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