i cant get my msd 6al to work

[myaccord7]

i hooked up my msd 6al the same way it says in the how-to but it doesnt work. i had a friend test it in his GTO and the unit does work. some other members told me other ways to hook it up but still nothing. i have an 88 lx engine in my 89 lx if it matters. any help?



zach

[shepherd79]

can you take some pictures of the way you wired up.

[myaccord7]

not for another week. im at school right now. im going back home june 3. i wanted to try a figure it out now so when i get home i could fix it.



zach

[myaccord7]

anything?

[myaccord7]

:(

[shepherd79]

did you make sure you connected properly?
i don't think you can screw up that connection. you only have to connect 4 wires plus ground and positive.
tell us what wires you connected to what?

[myaccord7]

i'll look fri. im going home then

[POS carb]

remember that black/yellow is + on the ignition coil and the blue ones are the -

[Not like a rock]

Instead of starting my own thread I'll jack this one.

When I bought my car it already had an MSD ignition box and coil. It's all cool except that the tach doesn't work. So where do I start?

I imagine I have to find the wire from the tach and connect it to the coil?

[POS carb]

if the 6al requires an external coil then the stock tach should work fine. There should be a blue wire for the tach but I can't remember right now where the wire comes from, i'll try and get a pic

as for the box not working you can test it by putting the ignition wire near a ground and then tap the magnetic distributor pickup wires together, it should spark every time they touch. If no spark double check your wiring. If there is a spark it probably has the pickups hooked up wrong to the distrib.

[Not like a rock]

Doh! Apparently, all the wiring is presently held together with electrical tape, and the blue wire had fallen off. For reference, I'm using an MSD coil, and there are two blue wires connected to on white wire. one of the blues goes to the distributor (ground?) and another goes underneath the fuse box somewhere. Now I'm off to the hardware store to get some real connectors.

[POS carb]

white is a points pickup, you can't use both at the same time. Plus the distributor should have a magnetic pickup signal but I don't remember right now which is which, download the shop manual

the magnetic pickup wires are violet on my Blaster

[myaccord7]

well, its been ALONG TTTIMME working on it, but i finaly got it to work today. i cant believe it, today was a good day for the accord. got the msd to work and got my tack to work. now i just need to get my power windows to work again.


zach