- May 2, 2005
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Here is what I know. Something in my TFI is frying ignition coils after about 50 miles whenever I put a new coil in.
I took a multimeter out to the car and did the trick where I put the negative lead on the negative battery terminal and then touch the positive lead to the block. Well, I get between .003-.008 volts on the block and a bunch of ppl over on the corral are telling me I should not see ANY voltage on the block at all. I'm going to change out my grounding strap tomorrow with a big 4 gauge unit and add another to the passenger's side. I'm also going to clean the **** out of all the connecting points.
Also, my stepfather in law is a senior ASE certified mechanic and his opinion is that under 1 volt on the block is not going to hurt anything and that the only thing that would fry a coil is a bad stator in the dizzy feeding back into it.
So basically I wanted to see if anyone else ever ran into a problem like this or had any advice.
I already replaced the TFI, the afermarket ignition box is good(problem happened with an old box too), plug wires checkout, rotor and cap are new... Can't think of anything else.
So I guess I'll replace the stator and ground the **** out of the motor and go from there? I really NEED to get this fixed asap since I have to take this thing through inspection in 12 days.
Thanks in advance guys!
I took a multimeter out to the car and did the trick where I put the negative lead on the negative battery terminal and then touch the positive lead to the block. Well, I get between .003-.008 volts on the block and a bunch of ppl over on the corral are telling me I should not see ANY voltage on the block at all. I'm going to change out my grounding strap tomorrow with a big 4 gauge unit and add another to the passenger's side. I'm also going to clean the **** out of all the connecting points.
Also, my stepfather in law is a senior ASE certified mechanic and his opinion is that under 1 volt on the block is not going to hurt anything and that the only thing that would fry a coil is a bad stator in the dizzy feeding back into it.
So basically I wanted to see if anyone else ever ran into a problem like this or had any advice.
I already replaced the TFI, the afermarket ignition box is good(problem happened with an old box too), plug wires checkout, rotor and cap are new... Can't think of anything else.
So I guess I'll replace the stator and ground the **** out of the motor and go from there? I really NEED to get this fixed asap since I have to take this thing through inspection in 12 days.
Thanks in advance guys!