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Hey guys, just swapped a terminator X into my 88 fox and can’t get it to start. Reading online it seems like it won’t start till it picks up rpm and I can’t seem to get it to read any rpm, just says STALL!. Let me know what I should check over. Thanks
 
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So now I don’t have spark, can someone explain how the coil works?
 

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The coil with regard to your setup or just how it supposed to operate stock?
 
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The coil with regard to your setup or just how it supposed to operate stock?
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I guess in regard with my setup, I wired it up with the tach in the car and the positive also being taken from that same place. Something like a red and green wire and a yellow and red wire? I don’t remember at this moment but the tach in the car moved when it was cranking and there was power at the coil(~10 volts). The white wire from the distributor is also Wired into the tach wire.
 

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Ok...i was getting ready to send you a video on how the coil works on a stock setup, but it wouldnt do you any good. I am not familiar with terminator x, in fact its something a friend of mine is trying to work out. Supposedly the previous owner sent notes
 
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Ok...i was getting ready to send you a video on how the coil works on a stock setup, but it wouldnt do you any good. I am not familiar with terminator x, in fact its something a friend of mine is trying to work out. Supposedly the previous owner sent notes
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Should I not be able to wire a switch into the plug to have it on by a switch or is there something I’m missing?
 

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@TOOLOW91 is the guy I plan to bug when I go stand alone on one of my random projects-if he’s not busy-maybe he will stop by
 
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Moved your thread where you might get more traffic for your holley setup
 
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Moved your thread where you might get more traffic for your holley setup
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Thanks
 

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This is an installation and not a tuning issue. Mods and others: Be sure to check the thread history and moderation actions before moving threads.

To the OP: Go back through the installation instructions for the ignition pickup.
 
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This is an install issue .

If there isn’t an msd box involved and you’re using a tfi factory ignition it should be wired as follows

White wire comes from the tfi harness and goes to the negative side of the coil - this wire would also feeds the tach signal

Then the 12v comes from the red wire with a green tracer to the positive side of the coil

It says STALL because it isn’t reading any rpm trace from the distributor
 
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TOOLOW91 said:
This is an install issue .

If there isn’t an msd box involved and you’re using a tfi factory ignition it should be wired as follows

White wire comes from the tfi harness and goes to the negative side of the coil - this wire would also feeds the tach signal

Then the 12v comes from the red wire with a green tracer to the positive side of the coil

It says STALL because it isn’t reading any rpm trace from the distributor
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I’ve already sorted this problem out and got rpm to read.
I am now having no spark. Reading voltage across the coil reads 12 when I’m not cranking and then drops to around 9 when I am. The only connections I have to the coil as of right now are the white wire that runs to the tfi harness and a wire running straight to the battery to try and simplify it.
 

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I’ve already sorted this problem out and got rpm to read.
I am now having no spark. Reading voltage across the coil reads 12 when I’m not cranking and then drops to around 9 when I am. The only connections I have to the coil as of right now are the white wire that runs to the tfi harness and a wire running straight to the battery to try and simplify it.
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Have you done a tps auto set yet ?
 
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Have you done a tps auto set yet ?
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Yes
 

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So then you have something not wired correctly or a bad coil

Where is the white wire from the tfi harness going ?

You didn’t do anything with the white points wire in the main harness correct ?
 
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So then you have something not wired correctly or a bad coil

Where is the white wire from the tfi harness going ?

You didn’t do anything with the white points wire in the main harness correct ?
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The white wire from the tfi harness is going directly to the negative side of the coil.

The white points wire in the main harness is not connected to anything.
 

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The white wire from the tfi harness is going directly to the negative side of the coil.

The white points wire in the main harness is not connected to anything.
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Ok and you have 12v to the coil now and it has no spark .

Make sure the harness isn’t mis pinned from Holley.

This was a known good distributor ? Because if all else checks out the pip could be no good in the dist
 
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