Urgent advice required - car broken down on road

[mattysshop]

side tipic -

don't be scared with a bit of a degrease and a squirt with a water blaster every now and then... just don't aim for things like the dizzy... i always degrease my engines HOT, and in any case possible with the engine running... (sometimes pod filter setups won't allow this) and have a can of WD-40 handy.. water shouldn't get into places it should not be... if it does.. might be a good time to look at replacing that gasket (like the thin one that 'seals' the cap to the dizzy)

[punkture]

very common on the 5sfe mate.. its your ignition coil, these are removable from the distributor...

place motor on TDC piston number 1 and whip the dizzy out (dont be too stressed its a slotted dizzy that only goes one way), theres 2 bolts holding it in (the ones you loosen as if you were going to adjust your timing), take the cap off, and take the rotor button off and dust cover, from memory theres 2 little nuts holding wires and 4 screws holding the coil to the dizzy..

bobs your uncle

Pick up coil?

[Chrisso]

For future reference, to test the fuel pump on an EFI corolla, grab a test light and a piece of wire to use as a jumper. Locate the CoR (circuit open relay), turn the ignition on, but don't crank it. Test the wires on the CoR, one will be live. Use the wire to jump this the wire going to the fuel pump. If you don't here the pump running then locate the fuel pump plug and test the connection there. If the connection is good, use the test light on both sides of the connector, your fuel pump is probably shot.

Had to do this about 2 weeks ago, Turned out I had a dodgy connection just before the pump.

[pandaah]

Pick up coil?

no the actual coil, with the primary and secondary windings inside...

[punkture]

no the actual coil, with the primary and secondary windings inside...

ah kk the usually cylinderical ones on old vehicles??? how are they behind the dizy? thought theyd be on the firewall

[pandaah]

nah, the 5sfe engine has the coil inside the distributor, its only pritty small... its got an electronic pickup that is used to tell crankshaft position and thats what triggers the coil to fire inside the distributor, then the coil itself fires directly into the cap...

ill try find a picture of one

[pandaah]

http://inlinethumb33.webshots.com/46...600x600Q85.jpg


heres an extremely large close up of inside the dizzy with the rotor button and dust shroud removed.. the orange thing with toyota and the part number written on it is the coil.. the 3 with the arrow is where the coil fires to directly into the distributor cap which is sent via the cap to the rotor button

[punkture]

ahhhhh you leanr something new everyday! =) +rep for you haha