Need some help asap-No fire

rickosuave1987 · Post by **rickosuave1987** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:19 pm

I am heading to the desert in a few hours and I cant get my baja to start. I started it this morning and it ran for a couple seconds then puttered out and died. I thought I had flooded it with the electric fuel pump so I shut it off and turned it over a few time-Nothing

So i thought maybe the coil to dist wire might be loose, nope. but When I turn the key to start the car there is no power coming out of the coil to the dist, took my test light to it while turning the key and no light.

It is a brand new coil. Any help would be great

Post by **david58** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:27 pm

Power comes to the coil terminal 15 from the ignition switch. Do you have power with the key on to terminsl15?

rickosuave1987 · Post by **rickosuave1987** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:30 pm

Yes I have power to the coil and on both sides when the car is off. But nothing on the coil wire when it cranks

Post by **david58** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:34 pm

Terminal 1 at the coil should blink your test light with the engine spinning. If it does the coil is toast if not the points or electronic ignition are toast.

Post by **2088 bob** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:36 pm

ricko let me pass something on to you that was passed on to me by my father and his father before him

Just because it's new does not mean its good

but seriously set your ohmmeter to 200 ohms and go across the coil terminals tell what you read

rickosuave1987 · Post by **rickosuave1987** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:07 pm

Well the coil is good. The brand new point i put in were not. went back to the autoparts place and picked up some more. The guy behind the counter told me to bring the other ones back if these worked. And they do. Thanks for the help guys.

And bob, unfortuanlty I had to find that out the hard

Ol'fogasaurus · Post by **Ol'fogasaurus** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:51 pm

VWs have problems with condensers. They have a tendency to be there minute, working strong, then gone potty the next. When I was still using them I always carried a second set of points and several condensers.

From the book, Peterson’s Basic Ignition and Electrical Systems; "If you ask an electrical engineer what the condenser does in the ignitions system, you will get several answers, because the condenser does several things. Its primary purpose is to create a clean cutoff of current flow when the points open. Current that might arc across the space between the points finds the condenser a greater attraction and rushed into it to create an unbalanced condition. Without the condenser, induced current in the primary would flow across the point gap, bleeding off the energy at the coil resulting in no spark at the plug."

It goes on to talk about more condenser problems such as grounding problems with the system.

This is not to say that the condenser it the problem, but it is something that should be looked at. Lee