dead 5K

[Karl Kauffman]

Jan,

Have you been able to confirm that the ignition module is ok?  Had that go
out on an '86 5000S (non-TQ) a while back, and was quite confusing to both
myself and the shop for a while.

Karl
'81 Coupe -- 129k mi


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I got home from work today and found my wife's 87 5KTQ had died in the
driveway shortly after she started it.  We're in the middle of a blizzard
and
I can't get the car in the shop.  I checked the obvious and there is 12
volts
at the coil but no spark from the hi tension lead at the coil.  I checked
the
ETKA and it shows the same ignition coil for both the 87 5K & my 91 2C so I
figured I would try a quick swap to verify the bad coil before the sun
disappeared.  Only the 20V has a 3 spade connector and the 10V has a 2 spade
connector so that didn't work.  A quick check of the archives references
some
problems with the power module.
Any BTDT's.  Coil, module, sensors?
TIA, Jan Lahtonen