My capri keeps shorting out

[monkeymoreton]

My 2.0 pinto keeps shorting out between the negative terminal and the ht terminal. Is it due to the coil being nakered or have I a bad earth or something ??

[welshmike]

Could be a knackered HT lead? Does the engine still run ok? not missing on a cylinder or anything?

[monkeymoreton]

Its missing ive tried different ht leads no different and I tried a coil off a efi pinto and that did the same

[welshmike]

have a peek inside your dizzy cap for anything obvious, cracks, broken contacts etc or swap it if you have a spare. Then inspect your spark plugs, you should be able to see from the plugs wich cylinder is missing aswel.

[katana]

Do you mean the neg coil terminal and the HT tower on the coil? If so - sounds like a cracked coil allowing tracking to earth (neg term.)

[monkeymoreton]

thats what i think it is all will be revealed tomoz as i have coil plugs leads on the way

[silverstreak]

take it up to d a s

[monkeymoreton]

yer i need to up there as i need wheel bearings and maybe diff bearings doing lol i've done 1,500 miles recently in it back n fro to crawley

[monkeymoreton]

All fixed runs sweet as now BOA next

[welshmike]

any ideas what it was?

[monkeymoreton]

i think it was the coil the leads were the shite as well as it had running problems recently now it's running the smoothest since i've had the only thing i mite need to keep a eye on is the accuspark leads are a tight fit round the plugs so mite jump off