Distributor pick up coil problems

full quack · 08-02-2009, 04:46 PM

Hello all,
Has anybody out there had a problem with their distributor pick up coil?

It was rather HOT in Seattle this week 103-105 degrees. I went to a customers house, the car was up to full temp., then the car sat and heat soaked for an hour. Combo 104 degrees outside, full temp engine, black car + an hour = no start!

Had it towed to my friendly repair shop, only to find them closed because it was too hot in th shop to work. Car sat all night, and of course it fired right up in the morning. Attempted to get it all hot & bothered for the remainder of the day, could not get it to repeat the failure. But the day was cooler at 102!

Any body have experience with similar scenario? Does it continue to fail after such an episode? Full dizzy rebuild is going to set me back around $700. Ouch!

Mark

DonE · 08-02-2009, 06:10 PM

Why do you think it's the distributor? Why not fuel vapor lock?

full quack · 08-02-2009, 08:46 PM

Well, I could get the pumps to run by pushing down on the plunger @ the fuel head. Then after cranking the engine over, you could clearly smell raw fuel in the tail pipe, also the cd box was making it's proper humming noise.
Lastly my extremely knowledgeable mechanic, told me it was either my ignition coil or the impulse pick up coil.
My ignition coil was almost new, but was showing slight signs of leaking, so I changed it out. But that was after she had already fired to life.
During our full day of attempting to get it so hot that it would fail again, alas it would not repeat the failure. i drove it home that evening, without incident.
I will be driving to work again on Monday morning so..........
Mark

kellcats521 · 08-03-2009, 05:03 AM

Sounds like the famous green wire failure - search this board for green wire issues.

I've never seen the pick up in the turbo dizzy fail - not to say that it couldn't, but the green wire that connects the pick up to the 6-pin box has a history of problems.