Re: No Spark

Thanks for the info.

I got it figured out thanks to help from Noble.  I know it
didn't make much sense to me either so I took the battery and coil into a
dark room and sure enough it's working fine.  Must have been to much light
in the garage to see the spark.  So next I checked all the connection and
wires going to the coil and all checked out.  I then tried the light bulb
trick and I found that the neg wire to the coil wasn't getting switched. 
I
took my scope into the garage again and hooked it up to the coil, nothing.
I did notice that it once spiked so I tried it again and this time I
wiggled
the key as I was cranking and sure enough I got the signal that I was
looking for.  I next installed the plugs and sure enough as soon as I
wiggled the switch during cranking it started up.

Not sure if I'm happy to find the problem because of the work I now face
in
replacing the switch.

I did notice that the tech isn't working now.  Any relation to the bad
switch?

-- 
thanks,
Andre


"Andre" <rhombus2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> I'm just about to the point of parting this car out.  I have a '83 944. 
I 
> found that it wasn't getting any spark and it looked like it was a bad 
> coil. I got a new coil in and tested it before I hooked it up (hooked 
> battery to secondary and I got spark every time I took away the ground.)

> I hooked it up to the car and crank and cranked again....nothing.  I 
> tested the coil again and now I don't get any spark out of my new coil. 
I 
> looked at my battery and it charged (btw battery is less then a year
old).
>
> It looks like something is killing my coils.  I was reading somewhere 
> where someone had the same problems.  Don't know if he ever got it
fixed. 
> I guess I have to study the schematic next to see how the car is wired.
>
> Anyone have any ideas.
>
> -- 
> thanks,
> Andre
>