testing ignition coils???, think that "might" be my problem??? Options

[Mueller]

it looks like I possibly jumped the gun and blamed the sparkplug wires for my lack of juice to the plugs.....I tried two different coils, both oil-filled stock type units, when I triggered the coils manually and held the coil wire to ground, the spark produced was in my opinion very weak


I picked up a known good Bosch coil that i will test later on this evening (doing honeydo's right now or at least i am supposed to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

[lapuwali]

Replace it with a new one.

Really, there's no reliable test. Some people say measure the resistance between the two side posts (should be very low, but not zero), and the side and center post (should be fairly high, but not too high), but that "test" has certainly failed for me before. Measuring inductance appears to be very difficult to do, or requires some special gizmo that's not seen much, and certainly costs a lot more than another coil.