Well, I suppose the ignitor in the trailing position could have gone bad. But I JUST switched it in from the leading position, which had been working (the car ran, that's my reasoning). That's why I started working backwards, but I expected to see/hear spark jumping to the wire, or from the coil to the wire...something. But I guess if the trailing spark is weaker, then I might not notice it.

I'm gonna make it out to the cookout Sunday, can yack about it then I guess.

My new issue is heating up when I drive with the lights on. I guess my fan clutch is going, because the car tends to run hotter than I think it should (about 1/2 way up the gauge). Then when I flip on my lights (not just pop up, the lights have to be on) the temp begins to rise almost to the top of that area on the gauge.

Of course then tonight I'm almost home, and the car cools down to about 1/3 instead of 1/2+ where it was the entire drive home, about 2 miles from the house.

I found a salvage yard right near my house (gotta love Pasco) but they only have a 2nd gen, no 1sts yet. That direct fire thing sounds ok, but I'm not looking forward to tearing into my only running car, and I don't get weekends to work on it. Actually...there's no days I don't need to drive the car, so any work I do has to be a one-evening type job.