Last night I read your original post also. Throughout this dilemma you are giving short answers to detailed questions. Those questions are meant to eliminate a possibility or determine next step. You have the complete IGN troubleshooter.
Because of the parts cannon approach, you never determined your original failure, And yet you seem to want to argue about others long term experience.
If you are using your november test results as a BASIS for todays questions, we have a problem.
If you have a ICM pulse, and power at coil plug, Then coil is not grounded or coil is failed. Retest ICM, Retest coil plug. Add ground wire to firewall stud to engine. Should test to .1 ohm. Or you have bad grounds all the way to battery.
You have a new distributor- do you have a P-1351 code? Does your reader show cam offset? Any other codes? Have you inspected the distributor cap for burn thru? You left many unanswered questions. This is the last chance I'm giving.
I never determined my original failure. It pretty much sat all winter. I did try the parts cannon approach and I tried the full IGN troubleshooter after. I tested everything with my multimeter and my test light. All of the ignition parts and signals test right where they should be up to the distributer. I have no positivity that the distributer is working fine other than I have seen a spark and it is brand new. This is where I got to in November. The Tahoe never started and I have not tried since then until last weekend. It sat in place for the wetness of winter. I gave up on trying and just wanted the thing towed. This is where I was as of last Friday, it hasn't been touched since I did the test results in November so I wouldn't think that any of those test results have changed or got altered since it just sat there.
Lets start with what I did have. I can try again when I got some free time again this weekend. I did have the ICM pulse and power at the coil (Coil is new as of November). I am unsure about spark from coil to distributor. Am I able to put the spark tester in there?
The dist. cap is new also as of November. I do not have a CEL but my code reader is giving me that code. I have one of the cheapo Bluetooth ones from eBay (using the torque app) and don't think it has cam offset (It might, I will dig into it later as well).
Definitely might have a ground issue as I tested that yesterday and was getting many different readings, usually around 0.4 ohms. I was thinking around a bit today and want to investigate that option of a ground issue some more. There is one ground I see by the distributer area to the frame. I sanded around a bit and got a good connection to the frame. I was unable to clean the other end, the space was too tight to get into. I see there supposed to be another ground on the other side but I can't find it.
Last night I did not get any light from the spark tester on 2 of the plugs (only tried 2, the 2 easiest to get to).
My mind got switched to something other than ignition when the tow driver smacked the fuel tank and it started right up and sat there running just great. That was the first time I had it started since November when I broke down. Would you have any explanation for this?
Sorry that I have been short and missing questions, I have 4 kids and a wife always needing me so I get in what I can. Already got distracted 3 times writing this. Thanks for taking the time to give me responses, it is appreciated. Didn't mean to sound like I was trying to argue.
