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No spark, need help!

Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:19 AM
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I just buttoned up the install of my heads etc. on my '90 L98. It cranks over fine, is getting fuel, but no spark. Could I have done anything to the electronics in the distributor during the re-install? I labeled all the wires, but being that I installed an MSD 5 years ago, I'm not positive that I have all of the connections correct. I'm going to try to locate the MSD instructions :rolleyes: and if I'm successful, will re-check the connections. Anyone have any obvious or not so obvious things I should check out?
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 12:30 AM
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Default Re: No spark, need help! (h rocks)

Just fyi...it helps when ALL of the spade connectors to the coil are properly plugged in under the dist cap. :rolleyes: Got it started. I now think that while I properly located #1 TDC with the heads off and got the valves adjusted, I might have installed the dist when the #6 was at TDC and therefore am 180 deg. out of phase. Tomorrow, tomorrow. :crazy:
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Old Sep 15, 2001 | 04:15 PM
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Default Re: No spark, need help! (h rocks)

For future reference a good resource for problems with MSD systems is the MSD website. You can download those stupid installation manuals that we all seem to lose

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