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Old 12-13-2008, 01:18 PM
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1992 Mazda MX3 4 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic

My daughters car was not running well. Stalling on cold starts and rough idle. I gave it a badly needed minor tune up including plugs, rotor and cap. The wires seemed ok, I also changed the fuel filter. After wards I started the car and it ran wonderfully for about 30 seconds after which it stopped and would not start again. I traced the problem to no spark from the coil and replaced the coil. Same issue again, the car started ran smoothly for about 30 seconds and quit, restarted again and ran for about ten seconds and quit. Again there is no spark from the coil. There was power to both the distributor and coil. Have since changed the igniter and now I can't get it to fire at all. No spark from either the coil or plugs.
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Old 12-15-2008, 06:03 PM
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make sure the rotor is installed properly. I dont know much about the 4cyl distributor design but i do know that on the V6 dist. there are 3 ways to put the rotor on but only 1 way is the right way.
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Old 12-16-2008, 08:12 AM
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make sure the rotor is installed properly. I dont know much about the 4cyl distributor design but i do know that on the V6 dist. there are 3 ways to put the rotor on but only 1 way is the right way.[/b]
Thanks, I will try that
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