Hi Bill Excellent detective work. I'll heat up the soldering iron tomorrow, remove the the power transistor and have a good look at the the back of the circuit board for dry joints. After doing that I'll refit the unit and check voltages again. If nothing has changed I'll follow your instructions an...

Hi Bill Thanks for the reply and the test procedure. I went thru the test procedure. I get an orange spark but it will only jump 1/2 inch (12mm) not 3/4" (19mm). Now the document specifies a 0.9 - 1.1 ohm resistor for the breakerless system but the car has been running without fault for 2 years...

Still can't get it started. Took some voltage measurements today. Maybe some one can shed some light on this. Coil Voltage - Ignition On Coil Terminal +15 = 7.2 Volts referenced to ground. Coil Terminal -1 = 1.3 Volts referenced to ground. Measured across Terminal 15 and 1 = 5.9 Volts. Coil Voltage ...

Hi Bill I've had 6 Volvo 240's starting with a 76DL and this is the first time I've had one without an electric fuel pump but it's also the first one I've had that's not fuel injected. So what drives this mechanical pump? I have to figure out why I'm not getting the blue spark at the output of the c...

Hi Bill I did try another set of leads that had a much lower resistance, between 1 & 2k but didn't make any difference. I'm going to pull the rotor, distributor cap and leads of my other 240 tomorrow and try them. This ones an fuel injected auto and only runs on petrol. It starts as soon as you ...

Hi Bill Here's some info about the ignition system I measured, starting with the coil. Primary: 1.91 ohms According to the Haynes manual this is within spec for a breakerless ignition. Secondary: 9.6k ohms Coil to distributor lead: 9.2k ohms Distributor to Plug 1: 10.3k Distributor to Plug 2: 8.2k D...

Thanks Bill I'll try all those suggestions today and let you know what happens. Do you know if the spark plug gap is the same for LPG. I put a new set of plugs in a few weeks ago when idling started to play up but didn't seem to make any difference... Bosch W6 DC-18 Copper core, resistor type 0.7mm ...

Hi Bill, sorry for the delay, the rain been hammering down the last few days and I don't have a garage. Previous owner instructed me to use the choke to start it and on the occasion when I forgot to pull out the choke it wouldn't idle unless it was a very hot day. Tried priming it with the ignition ...

Hi Bill Thanks for taking the time to reply. As we are on totally different time zones the replies might be about 12 hours out of sync. OK this one is set up to run on either LPG or petrol. It has never run very smoothly on petrol, keeps wanting to stall. I always start it on LPG, Always run it on L...

Greetings from down under. Ok I've got a 1983 manual wagon running on LPG with a B230E engine, Solex 175CD carburetor ( no fuel injection ) . Just lately it's been getting difficult to start and running a little unevenly. I replaced the plugs... didn't make much difference. Now it's got to the point...