Hello everyone,
I have an 87 Bronco II. I know your thinking not another Bronco II question...cause alot of forums i have browsed had alot of questions about problems with them..well i can say that i have owned mine for 10 years and this is really the first time anything major has happend to it besides regular tune-up's, and those really arent that major. My question is this. One day i was leaveing my friends house and i made it roughly 3 houses before it just died, like i turned the key off. And then it would only turn over and not fire. I removed the TFI unit and had it checked and it turned out fine. Then i after haveing it brought home on a flat bed i checked the coil and it also turned out fine. I had read on some forums that the coil wire leading to the Distributor cap can also cause it to do something similar, so i checked that also..that ALSO turns out to be ok. I then check for power going to the coil and i have power there. So i pull out a spark plug and and turn over the truck to see if i am getting any spark..nothing. I forgot to mention that when i went to check the primary leads to the coil that the ground had broken so i fixed that and figured that was the cause of it just turning off which i believe was the start to the problem. Would that loss of ground cause the stator to fry ? Well back to speed, so i removed the cap and rotor and i dont see any brown or char marks anywhere like it was being grounded but then again i'm not sure if that would always be the tell tale sign of grounding. Now i have read that it would be a real PAIN to remove the stator since you have to pretty much take apart the entire distibutor to get it out <i think thats rather stupid if you ask me>. I was wondering if there is a way to check the stator to see if its bad..nothing i have read in the Haynes/chiltons manuels says anything about how to check it if its bad. Only how to remove and replace it. So am i pretty much up the creek on this ? What i am hopeing is that if i replace the cap and rotor that would have been it. But with my luck as of late i doubt that will be the case. Any help would be much appreciated. Should there be anything else i should look at ? Thanks in advance for the replies.
I have an 87 Bronco II. I know your thinking not another Bronco II question...cause alot of forums i have browsed had alot of questions about problems with them..well i can say that i have owned mine for 10 years and this is really the first time anything major has happend to it besides regular tune-up's, and those really arent that major. My question is this. One day i was leaveing my friends house and i made it roughly 3 houses before it just died, like i turned the key off. And then it would only turn over and not fire. I removed the TFI unit and had it checked and it turned out fine. Then i after haveing it brought home on a flat bed i checked the coil and it also turned out fine. I had read on some forums that the coil wire leading to the Distributor cap can also cause it to do something similar, so i checked that also..that ALSO turns out to be ok. I then check for power going to the coil and i have power there. So i pull out a spark plug and and turn over the truck to see if i am getting any spark..nothing. I forgot to mention that when i went to check the primary leads to the coil that the ground had broken so i fixed that and figured that was the cause of it just turning off which i believe was the start to the problem. Would that loss of ground cause the stator to fry ? Well back to speed, so i removed the cap and rotor and i dont see any brown or char marks anywhere like it was being grounded but then again i'm not sure if that would always be the tell tale sign of grounding. Now i have read that it would be a real PAIN to remove the stator since you have to pretty much take apart the entire distibutor to get it out <i think thats rather stupid if you ask me>. I was wondering if there is a way to check the stator to see if its bad..nothing i have read in the Haynes/chiltons manuels says anything about how to check it if its bad. Only how to remove and replace it. So am i pretty much up the creek on this ? What i am hopeing is that if i replace the cap and rotor that would have been it. But with my luck as of late i doubt that will be the case. Any help would be much appreciated. Should there be anything else i should look at ? Thanks in advance for the replies.