Upstart
Junior Member
Hey guys, newbie to the forum here. I'm not a super experienced mopar mechanic but typically I can work my way through. But not this time it seems, ive got an 81 w150 with the 318, about 6 months ago she fell flat on her face coming home one night, voltage was dropping so I figured it was the alt. Got it home, changed the alt and she wouldn't start at first but when she did the starter didn't disengage. Pulled the relay wire and figured the alt had burnt the relay or ignition switch. Replaced both to be on the safe side, tried to start and now no spark. Checked the ballast resistor and then the coil. Nothing, so I swapped them. Then I did the same with the ignition box still no luck. So as a last resort I got a new distributor ( mine has dual pickups) and finally got a spark but only when the key was released from start to run. The old starter was pulling kinda hard on the battery so swapped it with the high torque off my 440 thinking maybe the voltage drop was too much. Now I get one initial spark from the coil when I hit the key then nothing. I have bypassed the ballast resistor and ran a straight wire from the coil to the batt but I'm all outta ideas. Anyone ever had this happen? Ive looked through all kinds of forums but everything ive found i have tried, unless I missed something. Any help is appreciated.