No spark coming from the coil

1996 NISSAN SENTRA
300,000 MILES • 1.6L • 4 CYL • MANUAL
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ANNA-MARE SWANEPOEL ROGERS
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Car cut out while driving found no spark coming from the coil, replaced the coil with a new one, still no spark.
Dec 4, 2021 at 12:58 AM
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KASEKENNY
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More than likely, you have an issue with the crank shaft position sensor.

Basically, we need to remove it and inspect it, but I would suggest starting with this testing to see if you can confirm this prior to removing it.

Here is a guide that talks more about this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/symptoms-of-a-bad-crankshaft-sensor

However, below is the testing from the manual that we need to run through to find out for sure that this is a crank sensor.

Please let us know what questions you have on this. Thanks
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Dec 4, 2021 at 2:44 PM
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ANNA-MARE SWANEPOEL ROGERS
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Hi Kasekenny, thank you for your feedback, we did find the problem, it was the module inside the distributor that was faulty.
Dec 5, 2021 at 8:10 PM
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KASEKENNY
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That is great info. Thanks for coming back and sharing the solution as that will surely help others in the future.

Please come back to 2CarPros next time.
Dec 6, 2021 at 7:42 AM