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Autos - Cars > Porsche - 944 > Re: No Spark
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Re: No Spark

by "William Noble" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 8, 2008 at 07:33 PM

ignition switch takes about 5 minutes to change - one plug you pull off the

back, two screws and out it comes,

tach - could be related - change switch and then see what happens
"Andre" <rhombus2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:kWQKj.1378$Cn4.417@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>


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 4 Posts in Topic:
No Spark
"Andre" <rho  2008-04-07 17:01:12 
Re: No Spark
darthpup <amchitka@[EM  2008-04-08 08:14:17 
Re: No Spark
"Andre" <rho  2008-04-08 20:52:09 
Re: No Spark
"William Noble"  2008-04-08 19:33:48 

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