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Subject:Re: No spark, help
From:Geo & Kathleen Hahn
Date:Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:03:23 -0700

alfred bagdan wrote:

> Just went to start van, no luck.  Turns over fine.   I checked for spark
> from solenoid, no spark.  Exchanged solenoids, still no spark.

I'm 'corn-fused'... did you mean 'solenoid'?  or possibly distributor or
coil?

If no spark from the coil I would start by verifying you are getting
power to it with the ignition on.

Hopefully something simple -- when I've had ignition parts fail it has
almost always been while driving down the road.  A failure while sitting
could be as easy as a loose wire.

As someone once said -- "Mechanical problems take minutes to diagnose
and hours to fix...  electrical problems take hours to diagnose and
minutes to fix".  Good Luck.

Geo H

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