Hi all,
This past weekend I replaced the cap, rotor, ignition wires, and coil on my 1990 5.0. The car has 87k miles on it and when I pulled the cap and rotor they appeared to be original to the car.
I had no issues prior to the swap other than an occasional long crank time to start. After replacing the coil cap rotor and wires, I now have a buzz coming from the coil, identified by using a piece of wood as a stethoscope and isolating the buzzing to the coil itself.
The coil I used was an inexpensive autozone brand one so I figured it was poor quality, so I sourced a new OEM Motorcraft unit from Amazon to replace it with. The buzzing did not go away upon replacing with the Motorcraft one, so I find myself a bit stumped.
Foolishly I threw away the original wires and coil so i can't reinstall them. Grr!
Any ideas what would cause the buzz? Can anyone recommend a quality aftermarket coil?
Thanks in advance !
This past weekend I replaced the cap, rotor, ignition wires, and coil on my 1990 5.0. The car has 87k miles on it and when I pulled the cap and rotor they appeared to be original to the car.
I had no issues prior to the swap other than an occasional long crank time to start. After replacing the coil cap rotor and wires, I now have a buzz coming from the coil, identified by using a piece of wood as a stethoscope and isolating the buzzing to the coil itself.
The coil I used was an inexpensive autozone brand one so I figured it was poor quality, so I sourced a new OEM Motorcraft unit from Amazon to replace it with. The buzzing did not go away upon replacing with the Motorcraft one, so I find myself a bit stumped.
Foolishly I threw away the original wires and coil so i can't reinstall them. Grr!
Any ideas what would cause the buzz? Can anyone recommend a quality aftermarket coil?
Thanks in advance !