Mstone68440RR
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Took my Roadrunner to a cruise last a Thursday evening, all was great until about a half mile to go when the car died.
Did not have any tools to work with but diagnosed no spark from the coil. Thinking I may have a bad coil I had the tow truck driver stop at the closest parts store and tried swapping out the coil with no luck. I finally had some free time to work on it today, no voltage getting to the coil from my MSD 6AL. Called a very knowledgeable Mopar friend and asked his opinion, he said the MSD may have died and to take it out and send to them for testing.
This afternoon, I removed a different MSD 6AL from another car I have sitting beside the house in hopes that that would cure the problem, well I just got done swapping it out and the car still does not start. Checked and still no voltage to the coil. The donor car I swapped the 6AL from has been sitting non op since 2004, so no guarantee that the other ignition was any good either.
Fuel pump is working, jets squirt fuel when accelerator is pressed.............I am confused as to what step to take next?
Any suggestions?
68' RR 440/727 MSD 6AL IGNITION, ballast resistor bypassed (have not touched anything with the wiring since I have owned the car) stock distributor, new cap and rotor about 6 months ago, along with new Taylor 8.2 mm plug wires at the same time. I have had the car for over 3 years and this is the first time I have been stranded. It feels like I am missing something simple?
Did not have any tools to work with but diagnosed no spark from the coil. Thinking I may have a bad coil I had the tow truck driver stop at the closest parts store and tried swapping out the coil with no luck. I finally had some free time to work on it today, no voltage getting to the coil from my MSD 6AL. Called a very knowledgeable Mopar friend and asked his opinion, he said the MSD may have died and to take it out and send to them for testing.
This afternoon, I removed a different MSD 6AL from another car I have sitting beside the house in hopes that that would cure the problem, well I just got done swapping it out and the car still does not start. Checked and still no voltage to the coil. The donor car I swapped the 6AL from has been sitting non op since 2004, so no guarantee that the other ignition was any good either.
Fuel pump is working, jets squirt fuel when accelerator is pressed.............I am confused as to what step to take next?
Any suggestions?
68' RR 440/727 MSD 6AL IGNITION, ballast resistor bypassed (have not touched anything with the wiring since I have owned the car) stock distributor, new cap and rotor about 6 months ago, along with new Taylor 8.2 mm plug wires at the same time. I have had the car for over 3 years and this is the first time I have been stranded. It feels like I am missing something simple?
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