Trev94

Help, 1995 LX 1.5 L, no spark how do I test distributor, I have no manual

chris_v2

There are more than a dozen tests to diagnose your distributor, it would take me forever to type them all out. Your best bet would be to download an online manual for your car. They have all the testing procedures there. I'll give you some quick tests.

Test for spark at ALL 4 spark plugs. Is it not present anywhere? Hook up a noid light and test for injector pulse? If you have no injector pulse, one of the position sensors inthe distributor has failed (unless you have a blown fuse or wiring issue).

If you have injector pulse, remove the cap and test the ignition coil. Locate the coil, you'll see 3 contact points, two have small wires going to them and will have a "+" and "-" beside them. One contant point is what makes contact with the cap, it'll have a little spring on there and be at the top of the coil.

Now, specs are hard to remember for all ignition coils and I recall there were different specs from TEC and HITATCHI coils as well.. most of what I've seen were TEC coils, so these specs will be for a TEC coil.

Primary resistance (between the two small wires/philips screws on the coil): 0.6-0.8 OHMS. (if you have a manual range multimeter set your dial to 200ohms.

Secondary resistance (between contact point with the spring and terminal A): 12-20K ohms. Kohms means 1000 ohms, so set your dial to 200k ohms.

edit: sorry, forget to mention that terminal A will be where the + is on the coil.

EF.Hatch

Make sure you check your wires first. Most of the time the dizzy is fine. If you have checked with new wires and still have no spark try spraying intake/carb cleaner in the dizzy. If this works your ignitor is bad/ corroded.