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Old 01-30-2010, 09:00 PM
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Unhappy my dads car wont start help? spark????

so my sister was driving my dads 1972 350 el camino to work and it stalled we get it home and it has no spark bought a new coil. i cant figure out how it goes back on the coil says external resistor and the car has four wires running to the coil i tried putting it back together still no spark whats going on???


black wire coming from distributor floating

red wire floating

yellow wire floating

and a wire from the external resistor floating

please help me figure out this puzzle thank you
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Originally Posted by Red98a4SS
so my sister was driving my dads 1972 350 el camino to work and it stalled we get it home and it has no spark bought a new coil. i cant figure out how it goes back on the coil says external resistor and the car has four wires running to the coil i tried putting it back together still no spark whats going on???


black wire coming from distributor floating

red wire floating

yellow wire floating

and a wire from the external resistor floating

please help me figure out this puzzle thank you




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