96 Taco 2.4l with 5 spd AND ignition issues
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96 Taco 2.4l with 5 spd AND ignition issues
I just bought a 1996 Tacoma xtracab 2WD with the 2.4l and 5 speed manual trans. It ran, albeit not optimally, when I purchased last week.
In the process of doing a tuneup (cap/rotor/wires/plugs, I pulled the distributor cap and found this:
As you’re looking at the distributor from the pass side fender, the two ring terminals on the right were hanging loose when I pulled the cover from the coil pack. Some research elsewhere says both should have been attached to the threaded post on the right but when I reconnected them and put the new rotor and cap in place, it would not fire when turning engine over. I have no spark at the plug.
Is it possible:
Those two wires should have been disconnected?
Only one of them should’ve been connected?
I shorted something reconnecting them?
Something else?
In the process of doing a tuneup (cap/rotor/wires/plugs, I pulled the distributor cap and found this:
As you’re looking at the distributor from the pass side fender, the two ring terminals on the right were hanging loose when I pulled the cover from the coil pack. Some research elsewhere says both should have been attached to the threaded post on the right but when I reconnected them and put the new rotor and cap in place, it would not fire when turning engine over. I have no spark at the plug.
Is it possible:
Those two wires should have been disconnected?
Only one of them should’ve been connected?
I shorted something reconnecting them?
Something else?
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