Distributor

Tiny
TINA EDWARDS
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How do you test continuity in distributor?
Friday, May 13th, 2016 AT 5:45 PM

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Tiny
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Replace it to see if the problem is solved. There is nothing you can test inside it. Older cars often had a simple two-wire pickup coil where you could measure if it had a broken wire. Normal resistance was around 500 to 850 ohms. Almost everything today uses a three-wire "crankshaft position sensor" and a three-wire "camshaft position sensor". The cam sensor can be in the distributor. If that signal drops out while driving, on a car as new as yours the engine might continue running until you turn it off, but it usually will not restart. By that time a diagnostic fault code will be set in the Engine Computer related to that circuit.
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Friday, May 13th, 2016 AT 5:58 PM

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