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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
I didn't get the module yet , had a friend stop by and he said he wanted to check inside the dist cap

so he popped it off and saw the pick up on the inside edge had the rubber-like  coating crumbling apart with large bits of it fallen down the dist , ha also saw that the metal tip of the rotor was bent when it  hit a piece of the rubber debris

he said with no spark first thing to do is to check the coil then if it is ok then maybe replace the module inside the dist since it could have been damaged by the crumbling debris from the side pick up like the rotor was
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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
Quote from: jcassity;463326
for code pulling click on my diy link,,, boat load of info in there but..........

i am back now,,,, been out of the office for the morning but got your VM, call back



My computer phone died during our conversation but I wanted to thank you for all your help and it was wonderful speaking to you on the phone as you had a ton of incredible info on these cars


I just came back in from doing the spark test ,

I got an old 2 cycle plug from one of my old 2 stroke Saabs and put it in the cable and jumped the starter and no spark  of any type occurred when grounding it on the shock tower

just in case the plug was no good I popped a plug off my lawn mower which I knew was good and tried it again and again no spark

is it correct that it is more than likely the culprit is the external module on the distributor
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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
Thank you all again for you help , I am more hopefull after hearing all this that it is the module rather than the injectors

since this has the external module on the distributor how do I check the code with a paper clip?
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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
When I disconnected the cable wires at the base of the throttle body I was able to get the car to idle for appx 30 seconds when the wires were disconnected a friend who does not have a thunderbird suggested it might be dirty or clogged injectors and I should take them out and clean them is it possible injectors are the problem?
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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
Quote from: CoogarXR;463302
How many miles are on it? I had a 85 3.8 LTD act the same way when the timing chain/gears wore out. But it had almost 200k miles on it.

First things first, as Jcassity mentioned, the ignition module is a much more common failure. However, that's usually an all-or-nothing failure. It either starts and runs normal or it doesn't start at all; there's no "running bad" phase.




Thank for your help as well and I had looked at the distributor and it looks like there is a rectangular module on one side with a cable going out of it

The car has appx 99,000 original miles
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Electrical Tech / My Thunderbird Died Driving On Road Please Help
Quote from: jcassity;463296
To be more specific,,,
first off we should be pulling your codes for you.

this can be done with a paper clip but are you a duraspark system or are you a EECIV system?


Thank you very much for your help and I looked at the distributor and it looks like there is a rectangular module on one side with a cable going out of it
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Electrical Tech / PIP or Crank Sensor Problem??
Quote from: jcassity;463266
thats a CFI system.
first,,, do you have an electronic module on the side of the distributor?

either way,
verify you have spark

sounds to me like you proved you have "some fuel delivery.





Thank you for your reply I did not check the spark as I have no one here to help turn the ignition key while I examine spark in the engine compartment and my eyes are too bad to see it from that distance