AZ opti is a crap shoot from what I hear. Don't know about the other brand, but I would strongly recommend getting an AC Delco this time around.

 

That's right... Forrest. Wow... Yeah I lived in those apartments back in the early '90's just after finishing college. I think rent was $200 a month if not less and the cops were always at someones place handling a "domestic disturbance." Mullets were a plenty around there.

 

LMAO Ya sounds about right. Those apts are the Ghetto now. Nothing but drug dealers and stuff live there. lol. I had a friend that lived there back around 2001 and he got outta there quick. Ya back in the day there were fields and country every where Now it's all houses. There is so much traffic here you can't even drive through town around 4-6 cause it's bumper to bumper. Johnson county isn't a dry county anymore though so you can buy alcohol at the beer store in Joshua now.

 

ok well I got my battery fully charged then did the test on the connector when I crank it and it is showing right at 2v AC on the Voltmeter. So does that mean that the opti is ok since it is showing the pulses from it?

 

Quick question is 8 volts ac a bad thing? lol

 

I may be wrong, but I think that the test more confirms that an opti is bad rather than proves that it is good.

 

Hey guys, I think my opti is bad. I had my ICM tested at O'rielly's, and it checks fine. I bought a new coil, even though the old one checks fine. But I'm not getting a spark from the coil to the opti. I'm checking this, by putting a timing light on the coil wire.

I've got twelve volts going to the ICM, I've got the signal(3V) coming from the PCM.

But my timing light doesn't show that a spark is being generated.

I'm thinking my Opti must be grounded, but if that's the case, shouldn't I be able to read continuity to ground between the coil wire(still hooked up to the Opti) and ground?

 

Did you check the wires to the coil, too?

BTW, it's not really a good idea to tag onto a year old thread with a new problem. People start reading through the old stuff, not realizing that it is actually old.

 

I've been on the internet for years, checking out different message boards, to help me fix/solve different problems. But I still haven't figured out what proper etiquette is. On some boards, as soon as you ask a question, you get a hundred responses, about using the forum search function.

Sorry.

But yes, I've got 12 volts going to the coil, and a pulsing signal coming from the ICM.