[jerry v]

Hello, my nephew has a 1990 toyota camry, he asked me to llok at it since it wont start. First thing i checked was fuel, and the timing belt. Everything was good there, next i checked for spark and i didnt have no spark at all. So i checked the coil with my multi meter, but when i took off the Distributer cap there was a good amount of oil in it. So i checked the coil and it was bad it almost looked as if it exploded. I changed the coil and still no spark, so i then check the pick up coil for resistence, and it was good, then i checked the gap and it was good too. So then i thought it could be the igniter, but no local part store carries one in staock and it runs about 170.00 bucks. So i want to the junkyard and i picked up three igniters, i swaped all of them in and still no spark. So i start checked the wires to see if i get Voltage to the coil and so i do get voltage to the coil, but the minute it touches the coil my voltage reading drops to 0. So i figured it was sending the power to the secondary portion of the coil and i only get about .016 volts. I am really stuck and running out of ideas can anyone help. Also i did check all the fuses, and i got no codes.

 

[Kep]

Turn your key to on (without starting the car). All of the idiot lights come on for an operation check. If the CEL light does not come on check your EFI relay.

Mine did pretty much the same thing. It actually turned out to be the ignition switch (somehow interupted the current going to one part of the ECU).

Did you check the center post of the distributor cap? Sounds like you did.

Kep