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General => General => Topic started by: vintage5 on September 11, 2011, 07:29:00 AM

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 11, 2011, 07:29:00 AM

Where can I purchase a Igniter?

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Chicken on September 11, 2011, 08:52:00 AM

The Ignition Coil at the Air Box??

WIDELY available.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 11, 2011, 09:55:00 AM

No. Inside the distributor.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Rocketman on September 11, 2011, 10:32:00 AM

I started a part number master list:
http://www.werbatfik.com/partnumbers.htm (http://www.werbatfik.com/partnumbers.htm)

Try searching eBay for the Mitsubishi part numbers, I have found them as cheap as $35 before

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 11, 2011, 12:48:00 PM

Thanks again Rocketman. It may not be the igniter. The firing looks good BUT when I try to push the gas pedal setting still the engine goes dead as if it was starving for gas?

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Rocketman on September 11, 2011, 03:25:00 PM

If the car runs fine otherwise, or runs fine (or at least idles) once warm it's not the ignitor. They either work or do not work, sometimes intermittent but temperature related & progressively worse (fail as the engine warms up)

The symptoms you describe sound like a bad vacuum leak somewhere behind the VAF

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 11, 2011, 05:50:00 PM

This all started when I was cleaning the ground terminals on the passenger side and drivers side, I also checked the plugs around and under the air box and coolent tank.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 13, 2011, 04:35:00 PM

I have fire but no start. I have gas at the fuel rail.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Rocketman on September 13, 2011, 04:45:00 PM

Did you clean the ground near the thermostat housing? Does your tachometer show any RPM's (200-300)when cranking?

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 13, 2011, 05:05:00 PM

The tech does move to 200 to 300 rpm. and it tries to crank when I first hit the starter but don't. It was running ok before it cleaned the grounds and checked the plug in terminals. The motor had gotten a little lazy.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Rocketman on September 13, 2011, 05:13:00 PM

Hmmmm that's a tough one. Did you mess with the fuel injector harness plug? If that isn't seated correctly the injectors won't get a signal.

Have you tried using starting fluid?

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 13, 2011, 05:31:00 PM

When I first got thru cleaning the grounds it would crank but when I tried to rev up the motor it would go dead or die down until I backed off then it would idle but now it want crank at all. Just like it was sarving for gas.

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 13, 2011, 05:38:00 PM

What kind of voltage should I read at the injectors and when?

Title: IGNITER
Post by: Chicken on September 14, 2011, 12:08:00 PM

vintage5

Member # 4113

  posted September 11, 2011 11:50 PM                    
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This all started when I was cleaning the ground terminals on the passenger side and drivers side, I also checked the plugs around and under the air box and coolent tank.
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Please describe "checked".

If you touched any Air Intake stuff, check for cracks, loose, leaks

Title: IGNITER
Post by: vintage5 on September 14, 2011, 03:42:00 PM

All I did with the connections was to unplug them and clean the terminals.