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SECTOR

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Hi all,

My car is not running to smoothly at the moment. I have checked the following out: Looking into the engine bay from the rear of the car I have: Removed the left hand coil lead, and started the car up, it runs, I have then replaced this lead and removed the right hand side ignition lead and the car will not run, I presume the problem is the belt has broken or the coil pack has failed ?
The car ran ok, but under normal exceleration would be a bit off on and not smooth, from 4000 rpm it would pull fine.
I understand that the car has 12 spark plugs, 6 from one distributor and 6 from the other.

comments welcome

Thank you
Stephen
 
As far as I know, improved 993 distributor drives cured the belt problem of the 964, so I'd strongly suspect a duff coil first.
 
Now I am a bit worried I think !

A few years ago I had a problem with the distributors, when a bearing on the rotor shaft failed, so my specialist fitted a complete unit ( 2 dists ) from a broken 964.

Cheers

Stephen
 
Also to test if it is a coil, could i swap the HT leads around going to the distributors, would this then prove it is a coil ?
 

ORIGINAL: SECTOR

Also to test if it is a coil, could i swap the HT leads around going to the distributors, would this then prove it is a coil ?
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Doesn't matter because it's a twin coil pack, so both are replaced. I hava a working spare coil pack if you're any where near central Scotland that you're welcome to try.

 
Thanks for the reply, but it turned out to be a broken rotor arm in the secondary distributer.
 
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