Ignition failure

Hi everyone, on my way home from work today in the Riv,the car died ,just like someone turned off a switch.It doesn't seem to have spark and I tried switching coils to no avail.The distributor has a mallory unilite conversion. can someone tell me how I can test my distributor or coil? Thanks

 

Hate to break it to you, but I think your Unilite module just crapped out.

 

John, how sure are you? si there a way to test it?

 

Check this out: http://www.centuryperformance.com/mallory/techfiles/unilitetestprocedure.pdf

It's a test procedure for the module.

 

Thanks a lot John that ws really helpful.

 

How is the bushing in your distributor cap? Did it stop touching the rotor?

-Bob Cunningham
bobc@gnttype.org

 

Once upon a time, in a magical wood there lived a fairy princess who-


wrong story!:laugh:

Once upon a time, beside a mundane highway, there sat parked a 1970 Skylark belonging to our hero. The engine had died, bam, like a switch was turned off as he was driving. He had a stock HEI, which doesn't really matter in this story, because you see, a piece of casting flash had worked it's way free, and got into the oil pump:shock: . This, naturally enough, ate up the gears, jammed the pump solid, and sheared off the roll pin holding the distributor gear to the shaft. With the distributor gear not spinning the shaft, no spark got distributed, and our hero, the dashing Prince Chris, walked off the highway to a pay phone with as dignified an air as he could muster. The only good thing in this story is that the engine quit so suddenly that there was no damage, and the Prince cursed softly as he repaired the pump with a spare set of oil pump gears and a new roll pin stolen from a spare HEI at 11pm that evening.

The End

 

What about the story with the fairy princess? I did all the tests on that link that John posted and called the tech line and the module is definitly shot.The broken roll pin story happened to my buddy last year when we were out in his lemans,so that was one of my first thoughts.on a good note another friend of mine had a brand new unilite module sitting around that he didn't need .so we'll see what happens tommorow.

 

Hopefully you'll be back on the road soon.

Glad the link was useful.

 

Bad Brad played the part of the Prince once too. But the pin was the victim of a hyperactive oil pump and 30 years of metal fatigue. Of course, to enliven Bad Brad's story, he had just installed a carb spacer not more than 100 yards away. Bad Brad, naturally, for at least an hour or two, thought the carb spacer was the villain.

 

Well,the unilite module was the culprit,thanks for all the help guys.:TU:

 

Good to hear that you got it running again.