t23175210

84 svo, bone stock 2.3t
Car just died one day, now it will not start
Car turns over fine, has plenty of gas but no spark.
No spark coming from the coil, replaced the coil (still no spark)
Power going into coil pigtail from the harness
What’s next to replace? TFI?
I might just end up taking it to the automotive electrical shop, my dad is good friends with the owner.
Need more info, just ask.

trashline

So your getting power to the coil, but no power out of the coil even after your swapped the coil out? Still sounds like a bad coil to me. Unless you really are getting power from the coil then I would check the TFI and PIP next.

t23175210

I replaced the coil with the first one and it still didn’t work, so I brought the first coil back and asked the guy if I could get another one because it the first might have been a defect/mismake. With the second coil in, still getting power on the pigtail so it’s not the coil. I’m assuming the first and second coils are good. When I pulled the distributor, the FTI pigtail was all messed up and held on the distributor with zip ties. I replaced the TFI and in the process of wiring the new pigtail. Hopefully it will fire when it’s all back together.

trashline

TFI leads are touchy subjects... not sure if you noticed or not but the harness for it is shielded for reasons.

You really should use heat sink compound with the surfaces very very clean between the tfi and the dist mount. You can get heat sink compound from radio shack. dont use anything else for that.

sleeper_inc

You have a bad TFI or a bad connection somewhere...