died....no spark

[Drive_a_toy]

hey

i was driving down the road.....doing about 100 km and my car died.
no warning, no shaking, nothing happened.....it was totally spontaneous....
i pulled over and tried to restart.......it turns over just fine....and i have plenty of fuel....i checked the cap and it looked fine.....i pulled a spark plug and checked for ignition...NUTTIN.......as far as i could tell it wasnt sparking ...im not 100% sure this is the prob .....but its all i can think of...... any ideas what could be wrong?.......i have a few ideas..,....but i dont really know what to check....ignition coil?...or ignition module?.........or the dizzy shaft off the engine .......broken?........im stuck wit no weels and i need to work........i dont know were to look .....

help me plz..........

[LYR]

hey,
sounds awsome!
Hmmm, anyway...would not be too worried bout hthe dizzy shaft that the mment if i were you! but can simply check it by leavin the diz cap off, firing the ignition like as only a real quik flick an see if it does or has moved!
othere than that, my first tought would be that your coil has had it... but jus check all the wires are connected with good contacts to the coil BEFORE you replace it an try again... had mine jus FALL off an do exactly what you said, jus hooked it bak on an kept cruisin...
see how you go wit that, if your coil IS ok, it is possiblt the dizzy or maybe the points are loose??
See how ya go...others here might have some better ideas, but see how ya go mate...
good luck!
LYR

[LYR]

also,
go to the celica forum, an check out the 18RG swap dude, he has been havin a bit of troubles with his ign. too, this dude 'stepho' who has been helpin him has been doin an awsome job, so have a look at all them threads, an it might give you some ideas!!!!
give it a bash!!!!
LYR

[90 GP]

I had same thing with my 92 Celica and it was the ignition coil which is located inside the distributor. Also pull distrib. cap and watch rotor while cranking to verify it is rotating. If it isn't the timing belt is broken.

[Raddman]

i was driving down the road.....doing about 100 km and my car died.
no warning, no shaking, nothing happened.....it was totally spontaneous....
i pulled over and tried to restart.......it turns over just fine....and i have plenty of fuel....i checked the cap and it looked fine.....i pulled a spark plug and checked for ignition...NUTTIN.......as far as i could tell it wasnt sparking

Have any transmission work done lately? Bad crank sensor will do that exact same thing as you described, happened to my friends car and they replaced the sensors only to have them short out again, found that it was a wire in his module harness that was pinched between tranny/engine and shorting out the sensors....Cost him $680 He took the Tranny guy to small claims court and won his money back ......Radd Guy...

[toyotaspeed90]

there is no crankshaft sensor on the early 4afe's

i would actually expect it to be the ignitor, not the coil..... if the coil goes bad, the car will show signs of going bad.... running poorly, low gas mileage, etc... (and you will still get some spark at the cap). if the spark went away completely it's either your ignition module (more likely) or your ecu

[Flashmn]

I've never seen a toyota 4A-F/FE coil break, those internal coils last a frigging long time, I've seen cars with 300kkm on them with the stock coil. Ignitors do break and they cause sudden spark loss.