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Car just stopped running. Lost power suddenly.

Car just stopped running while driving about 40 mph. Lost power suddenly. Won't start. Fuel injected and seems ok. Battery good. No spark to plug wires, tested with calibrated ignition tester. 1993 Mazda 626 4 cyl. Has distributor. Thinking coil and trying to check but coil appears inside distributor housing and no coil secondary wiring from distributor cap to hook up tester to check spark. Trying to trace my way back to find what is wrong with spark. Trying to check for voltage at ignition coil electrical connector but not sure what leads to connect to. Wires are red/black, green, yellow inside this connector. On an older car from 60-70's, I would think coil was gone and needed replacing, but easy to do as they were most likely separately mounted. Appreciate any assistance.

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Find an inductive pickup indicator for spark. Place on distributor cap to see if spark is at coil internal tower. If no spark at internal tower, look at ignition module or pickup coil. Ignition modules are prone to failure on 626's. But if you have spark at tower but not at the wire end, then your rotor is gone.

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