Originally Posted by safechav
there is also the dizzy cap and rotor arm that can fail, but you can tell a lot by looking at them, and cheaper to replace
I think i forgot to mention i've already changed the plugs, leads, cap and rotor arm.
Did you test to see if theres a spark straight from the coil as you said was described in the haynes?
No, but i will do this today
Mine is on its way out, occasionally it miss-fires and back fires out the exhaust very loudly, its funny at the moment as it still drives, but ill probably
when i brake down.
It's funny you should mention that cos i've noticed over the last couple of months it sometimes hesitated under boost and backfired a few times too. After reading everything you've said i'm now quite confident it's the distributor.
if i said removing the old sensor is harder (which isnt actually hard) than the new one is to fit, would that grab you by the goulies?
Well when you put it like that i'm sure even i could change it and make it look easy