Update 1992 suzuki sidekick.

Well I had some guy come over and tell me it wasn't getting any spark. So I sortof felt stupid. He then check the rest of the system. He said it could either be the coil or a light pulse in the distributor. He said he didn't want to replace the coil. If it was the the light sensor. So I need to take my truck over to have them test it. He also checked my other vehicle that was sucking down water. Either a head gasket or cracked aluminum block. So the filler car is gone. Not bad for 45.00. If he replaced the part in my truck. that 45.00 goes towards it. So not to bad.  

P.S. 200,000+ miles. Timming belt is to be changed at the end of the month. Along with radiator and water pump. Somewhere in there new tires too.

Later,

Josh

I don't think the distributor has
a light pulse for the timing, as far
as I know they use an inductive pickup

I would see if it fires up on ether(starting fluid). If it does, then the coil is working... Just a way you could check the coil yourself.

As for the light pulse, I thought they used inductive pickup as well...

Its definately an inductive pick up, actually a Hall Effect sensor. Easy to check with a resistance meter. Connect the meter to the terminals turn the engine. It should go from short circuit (0 Ohms) to open circuit (many ohms)

Sorry about that. The book does call it hall effect sensor.

Later,

Josh

    Is it an 8valve or 16 I would think 8 based on the year? anyways I couldn,t get any spark on the lawdogs 16v last week it ended up being a break in the ground going to the distributor from the main harness.
  the ground actually goes from the dist into the firewall through the dash back out the pass side and hooks up to the block give us some more details

It is a 16v. It has a dead ecm. So I'm in the middle of getting another. Then I'll send the dead one out to get rebuilt as a spare. costly little suckers. But nice to have a spare.

later,

Josh