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1985 chevy truck has no spark to wires..I changed rotor and distributor cap and coil.It ran 1 day and now it won`t start again?

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  • Anonymous Jan 20, 2012

    I put another control module, cap and rotor on,it fired and ran fine. I`ll see what happens tomorrow!

  • Anonymous Jan 22, 2012

    I had already put 2 coils on. So tomorrow came and it won`t start ! New coil,new cap and rotor,new module,new plug wires. WTF! I`m clueless! Bad distibutor? Why is it frying the rotor? I`ve put 3 in!

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Its the ignition control module that is faulty.

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    Ricky Peters Jan 21, 2012

    If you have already put a new ignition control module in it before and you put the heat sink paste on the bottom of it then more than likely it has to be the ignition pickup coil .

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    Ricky Peters Jan 22, 2012

    If it has the HEI distributor in it then i would think its a ptoblem with the ground.Make sure the ground prong is in the distributor.

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