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For some background info: On my 94 LS (daily), I had a TD55 distributor giving me some idling issues and throwing a CEL 9, but generally ran fine otherwise (drove it for like a year like this) . Eventually replaced it with an ebay distributor which corrected the CEL and idling issues, until one day it just died while idling (which never happened with the old one) leaving me stranded (no spark, no start).
After getting the car home, I threw the old distributor on and the car runs consistently, but the CEL and idling issues returned as expected.
Not sure what caused my new distributor to die, but I suspect the coil burnt out possibly due to bad plug wires (which were causing engine hesitation which was resolved after replacing the wires which was after putting the old distributor back on the car) or maybe just the fact it was a low quality ebay product.
I'm looking to combine the working parts to make a reliable working distributor with no CEL or idle issues.
What is the best way to test an ignition coil?
After getting the car home, I threw the old distributor on and the car runs consistently, but the CEL and idling issues returned as expected.
Not sure what caused my new distributor to die, but I suspect the coil burnt out possibly due to bad plug wires (which were causing engine hesitation which was resolved after replacing the wires which was after putting the old distributor back on the car) or maybe just the fact it was a low quality ebay product.
I'm looking to combine the working parts to make a reliable working distributor with no CEL or idle issues.
What is the best way to test an ignition coil?