Duraspark Install

[SR185]

When i put in the dizzy should the rotor be pointed at 11 o'clock from looking at the engine or be pointed a the number 1 piston.

Looking at the engine.

 

[Twister]

so it should be at 11 o'clock from when looking at the engine bay from the front?

 

[kimcrwbr1]

11 oclock or at the #1 tower on the cap

 

[Twister]

Ok that's the way it was wehn I put the new one in. I am all out of ideas on what is going wrong with this thing.

 

[dangerranger83]

If you have ignition, fuel, and air you have a working engine. But if not in the correct order, you have a paper weight.

Does it even try to have any kind of ignition or combustion that hints that you are close? Make sure all your plug wires go to the correct cylinder. The dizzy rotars turn clock wise on these engines.

 

[Twister]

Well i got the truck to start today. I got a suggestion from someone on another forum to try different dspark box. So i went to a different auto parts store and got a different box and what do you know it worked. When i first cranked it i got nothing, thats because one the wire came undone. I re hooked it back up and "BOOOM" my muffle now has no back to it. So we got i to start but i gave it to much gas and it died. we have not got it to start yet but i am almost there.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Check your start wire at the starter solenoid for power with the key in the start position. Check the power to the coil with the key in the run position you should have battery voltage at the + side of the coil and slightly less on the neg side. If power is not going thru the coil it is bad. To check the coil put a spark plug in the coil wire going to the dizzy and set it on ground then crank the engine over you should get a nice even brite blue spark. If not keep the key on and take a jumper wire from the neg side of the coil and touch it quickly to ground you should get spark every time to trigger it. If you get spark and the power to the module is good then you need to test the dizzy. The black wire is the engine ground and ground for the module the orange and purple are for the pickup coil. You need continuity thru the coil and it dont matter if they are backwards as long as they dont short to ground. If the dizzy checks out then your module is probably bad. All you can do for it is make sure the wires are correct and the coil and dizzy check out then the module is probably toast. Print this out and test it in that order let us know what you find out. Once you get it to spark then the timing is another issue put he timing light on each wire plug until you find the timing mark on the damper then trace that wire to the cap and use that for #1 plug and set the firing order clockwise from there.

What is the name of that other forum maybe I can learn somthing there also.

 

[Twister]

You might have been there before. Its broncoii.org

 

[Twister]

Alright, does anyone have any tips on getting the timing somewhat right so that i can start it and get the timing right. Where should the dizzy be for the proper timing?

 

[kimcrwbr1]

On the top of the engine in the rear. Go back and read all the posts in this thread and count the times we have told you.

 

[Twister]

Other than taking the dspark box to a autoparts store, is there any other way to check and see if it is burned out, i am back to where i was before. It will crank forever but give no hints of starting.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

I think your gonna need someone to show you. You have asked these Qs multiple times and still haven`t figured it out. Go back from the beginning and read all the way through the answers are already here, Maybe someone here lives close enough to you to help you get it running.

 

[Twister]

ok so i am not getting a blue spark form the coil, so does that mean my box is dead?

 

[dangerranger83]

The durabox doesn't determine if the coil gets power. When you turn the ignition on, the solenoid kicks on letting power to what's hooked up to it to get power. The coil should be one of them.

 

[Twister]

Well i found out that i blew two dspark boxes

I got them replaced and am going to try to get it started today. I am going to rewire everything, the guy at autozone thought i might have a short in the wiring somewhere.

Wish me luck