Not starting

[tjmcb]

Well it seems all my issues turn into really puzzling projects-

Car has been starting and running just fine, went out Sunday morning and it started and ran fine. Parked it for about 4 hours and it would not start.

It has power to both sides of coil fine and cranked fine just as before it had no spark and would not start?!

I let it sit for about an hour and tried again- it coughed once and started and ran just fine?1

This is just driving me crazy

[Luva65wagon]

You may have a coil going intermittent. Here's a very good page explaining some diagnostics you can run - and will save all a lot of typing the same thing.



http://www.aa1car.com/library/ignition_coils.htm

[tjmcb]

I thought I would fill you guys in on the latest-
I have checked all of the components with every test I can find and nothing is out of the ordinary. Also the car has been starting flawlessly since Sunday afternoon and I must have tried to get it not to about 20 times!

The problem is like waiting for a book to fall from the shelf, I know I've done nothing to fix the problem it just went away for now!

thanks again we'll see how it goes,

[Luva65wagon]

Ahh... the joys of intermittent failure. Why couldn't it just break completely and get it over with!

[tjmcb]

Had a no start on Monday but it did start about 30 minutes later. I going to just start a long process of elimination since nothing is showing up. I'm going to redo all connections on starting side- solder and shrink. If nothing else it will be therapeutic!

[tjmcb]

After checking connections under the dash, it appears that the previous owner had left the pink wire tucked away and still connected. Rewired and have better voltage to the coil now. Car has been starting regularly and for some reason seems to run and sound better?! Tach is now steadier now also.
Go figure!

thanks for all your help,

TJ