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PLEASE HELP - broken down on the side of the highway! (long)
Posted by Wes (more from Wes) on Sat, 19 May 2001 23:26:20
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1986 900T: Very depressed, had to leave my Saab on the side of the highway tonight, hopefully it'll be there in one piece tomorrow.
Here's the situation. The car was driving, but started bucking some, like it was misfiring. This went on a little ways as I was trying to get home. Then I pulled over, idle dropped down, and finally the car cut off. I tried to restart, but it would just turnover. Looked under the hood and found that the ground wire that connects to the side of the distributor was off. Put it back on, didn't help. I checked the main line coming from the coil to the distibutor and it gave a spark. I pulled a spark plug line and checked, it didn't give a spark. So something is happening between coil and plugs, but I really don't know anything about ignition system.
Also, this morning I had pulled off the Hall sensor plug that mounts to the side of the distributor and noticed that the connections were very corroded. I didn't really clean them well, but did squirt some dielectric grease in there.
Please give me any advice of what to do. Could having the ground at the distributor off fried anything? Could the corroded Hall sensor plug now be preventing the plugs from firing? How do I diagnose this. I'm going out in the morning to check on my car (30 miles away!) and I'm bringing my Bentley, but I need help. I'm going to bed now.
Thanks in advance.
Wes
Atlanta
'86 900T
'92 900C
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