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08-09-2003, 07:20 PM
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dizzy help!!!
Alright, I fucked up big time today. I went to change a bad igntion rotor, and the shield behind it was all dry rotted. I tried to move it to get to a screw and it broke into about 8 pieces. Well I change the rotor after battling a stripped screw. I figure I could try to see if it would run so it did for about 10 seconds and shut off. WTF, so now it wont start. I took it back apart and everything looked good and the voltage was right, just no spark. So I concluded that the absence of the shield caused a voltage jump and fried something. The coil should still be alright, but then there is the magnetic pickup and some other thing. My question is should I try to find these replacment parts, a new dizzy, or just hand it to a mechanic and call it a day. If anyone has any experience with this, help me out. Also its the dizzy out of the stock 95 ex motor in a b16.
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#2
08-10-2003, 03:30 AM
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Thats the igniter
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08-10-2003, 09:50 AM
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Thanks. You know what is weird though, the shielding I broke was actually only a "leak guard" according to the manual and is a "if equipped" item. So now I've got to wonder, what the hell caused this? I am going to check the voltage and resistance values on everything today against what the manual say. I just dont see what I could have done to fry anything by just changing the rotor.
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08-10-2003, 12:06 PM
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maybe you moved one of the wires, and it just grounded out inside the dizzy.
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08-10-2003, 09:38 PM
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Well I think I figured it out. The "leak guard" is actually a "voltage leak guard" and prevents voltage from jumping to the rotor. The did voltage and resistance checks and the coil and the ICM. The coil is ok, but seems to be on the way out now which is fine because I had already had a full msd system in the mail due to get here thursday. The resistance in the ICM was WAY off to the specifications in the manual, so I think thats the prob. I am going to try to replace that and get another leak guard and hope that fixes it. I just made a dyno tuning appointment the day it happened too. But it is next month so that I can get my igntion and a/f systems in check.
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