94' burning ignition coil

[geofrog]

Hi,
I am new to the tracker forum, its great, i have used the fiero forum for a while now, for my other car, glad to have one for the tracker as well.

I have a problem. I was backing out of a parking spot, in autozones lot when the car just died. I tried to start it but it just cranked and cranked and cranked. I opened the hood, and found this.

where the coil hooks to the coil wire, going to the distributer came off, upon closer look i found it was burnt both on the distributer wire and the coil, then the entire coil end just shaddered and fell apart.

I chalked it up to a bad coil, baught an oem one and got on my way. That was last year. THis year, again in autozone parking lot it did the same thing. Looked at it, and it has distroyed itself once again.

Please help. I don't know what is calling it.

THanks
Kris

[bigd7315]

when is the last time you put pugs and wires on it

[baumbr]

I know it's just a key stroke error, but I have to respond to the inadvertant humor in the last post.

Does replacing the squirrels under the hood with "pugs" give a tracker more horse power?

You say the distributor end was bad as well? Check your distributor cap for carbon caking which can cause a dead short to ground. Also check the rotor gizmo under the distributor cap for damage. Plugs and wires are also a good bet. Make sure your alternator output voltage is in range. Something is causing too much current to pass through the coil, etc. and burning it up.

[geofrog]

thanks, i will check that out, and let you know