[Gagirl84]

I'm wanting to put a 5.2L motor from a 96 Dodge dakota.into my 93 Dodge Dakota that had a 3.9L. I'm doing a motor and trans swap.The replacement motor & transmission came out of a truck that was running good but when wrecked it burnt the wiring harness. I've got both motor & transmission into my 93. Ran into more problems than expected as far as fuel lines exc... Problem I'm having now is I have fire everywhere but none coming from the distributor to the spark plug.... Fire going 2 but none coming out. Can someone please give me some advice... Thanks in advance.

 

[immattj]

So you are saying that you have definitely verified that you do have voltage from the end of the coil wire that connects to the distributor cap?

I would think that would mean that everything is good in front of the distributor cap (meaning that the primary coil wire, coil, ASD relay, PCM, crank and cam position sensors must all be good) as I believe if any of these were inoperable you would not have voltage from the coil.

Therefore I would think that this would mean that your problem must be after the end of the primary coil wire where it attaches to your distributor cap (distributor cap, rotor, distributor itself, spark plug wire). Although I have read that the distributor itself is not a high fail part.

 

[bradley.rampenthal]

Do you have continuity across the points when they are closed and not when they are open?

 

[immattj]

Do you have continuity across the points when they are closed and not when they are open?

Unless OP did a conversion, I am thinking no breaker points on this one.

 

[bradley.rampenthal]

Unless OP did a conversion, I am thinking no breaker points on this one.

You are correct. I had a 97 Dakota and don't know why I thought I remembered it had points. Probably because the rotor looked the same and I was constantly changing that. The last day I drove it I changed the rotor and it seemed to run right for a few miles and started acting up again. Kind of off subject but, I was pulling my boat to the river at the time. When I was taking the boat back out of the river the current pulled my trailer along with my truck totally under water. I had a 2003 Dakota at the same time and it is still running good. I don't miss the 97.

 

[immattj]

You are correct. I had a 97 Dakota and don't know why I thought I remembered it had points. Probably because the rotor looked the same and I was constantly changing that. The last day I drove it I changed the rotor and it seemed to run right for a few miles and started acting up again. Kind of off subject but, I was pulling my boat to the river at the time. When I was taking the boat back out of the river the current pulled my trailer along with my truck totally under water. I had a 2003 Dakota at the same time and it is still running good. I don't miss the 97.

I am old school too, Bradley, but I sure don't miss breaker points.