natificent
New Member
Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to the world of A Bodies so appreciate any help or guidance anyone can give me would be much appreciated.
Car is new to me and while it ran, it needed a lot of work.
Replaced:
I put an inline spark tester on one of the plugs and while it lights up, it's not really bright. I did a spark test from the same wire to ground and again while it did spark it was pretty weak.
After talking to my mechanic he suggested it could be the ballast resistor. The didn't have one in stock so i'm waiting on it to arrive tomorrow.
A few questions:
Car is new to me and while it ran, it needed a lot of work.
Replaced:
- Distributor
- Distributor cables
- Battery
- Spark plug
- Coil
I put an inline spark tester on one of the plugs and while it lights up, it's not really bright. I did a spark test from the same wire to ground and again while it did spark it was pretty weak.
After talking to my mechanic he suggested it could be the ballast resistor. The didn't have one in stock so i'm waiting on it to arrive tomorrow.
A few questions:
- Is it safe to bypass the ballast resistor just to try to get it running. Wouldn't want to run it like that long term obviously.
- Are there other common problem points I should look at?
- Any good troubleshooting guides anyone could point me to?