Royal coil cock up

physicsfool · May 10, 2015, 05:02:31 PM

My adventure continues..... 2 miles down the road

Yesterday I took the car for a 10 mile run in and on 3 occasions it stalled while I was changing gear and had the clutch depressed.

Now today it had words, juddered quite a few times and finally died.

Now I have changed the coil pack 3 times on this car, from a new one to an original one that came off the engine before I rebuilt it and one off the GT that I knew ran fine.

It will no doubt start again when I get back to car tomorrow, is it definitely the coil pack? Or am I missing something trivial, we all know it's happened before

Yoof · May 10, 2015, 05:37:10 PM

Hall sender in good order?

physicsfool · May 10, 2015, 05:40:31 PM

Bought the dizzy as a refurbed item. I do have a spare so could try that. But he did say he had replaced the hall sender on it

physicsfool · May 10, 2015, 05:45:32 PM

I did a u turn in the road a few days ago and the engine cut out. Wouldn't restart until I popped a different coil pack on? Could it be the rotar or cap?

samg40 · May 10, 2015, 05:53:37 PM

I had the same where the car would randomly not restart at various points. It would run for ten minutes and then wouldn't start again. Its been fine ever since I swapped the coil.

physicsfool · May 10, 2015, 05:54:53 PM

Did you swap for a new one? If so which one did you go for? I tried a febi one but left me stranded twice

samg40 · May 10, 2015, 05:57:30 PM

I had one randomly on the shelf in the garage of unknown origin that I slapped on it. I'm not sure what the best source of them these days is. What do euro list?

Andy · May 10, 2015, 06:50:41 PM

You sure that you've not got some loose wiring?

physicsfool · May 11, 2015, 04:51:21 PM

Quote from: Andy on May 10, 2015, 06:50:41 PM
You sure that you've not got some loose wiring?

Checked the fuel pump and turns out the earth didn't have a good contact. Such a steep learning curve