Where is the ignition coil located in a 1990 buick century?
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Where is the ignition coil located in a 1990 buick century? They tell me mine is bad, I read how to change it, but can’t find it inside the engine. If you don’t know this but DO know where I can find free engine manuals I would be just as greatful. thanks.
Where is the ignition coil located in a 1990 buick century? They tell me mine is bad, I read how to change it, but can’t find it inside the engine. If you don’t know this but DO know where I can find free engine manuals I would be just as greatful. thanks.
July 20th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
the coils are sitting on top of the ignitor. there is either 1 huge coil with 6 “towers” or leads on it, or 3 coils with 2 towers/leads on it.
find a spark plug cable, follow it from the plug to the other end. the other end is where the coil is.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 am
I think the engine coil is located next to the rest of the car in the junkyard
July 24th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I would look under the hood and find the spark plug wires. Trace them back to the distributor. There is a single wire running from the distributor to the coil. QED
July 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I believe you will find it underneath the car/engine, probably near the middle but closer to the passenger side. This happened on my Mercury Sable, and hitting the coil with a hammer lightly would get it to work again temporarily. I got some strange looks in parking lots crawled under my car and banging away!
I changed just the coil (which was cheap) and haven’t had a problem since (over a year ago, now), even though the mechanic tried to tell me I needed to change the whole starter motor as well!
July 26th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
find a plug lead follow it back to the distributor cap in the middle of this is a tall tower follow this lead to the coil thats how uk engines are us should be the sAME
July 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
it depends on what motor you have..
if it has a distributor the coil is in the cap..
if no spark plug wires are visible..the coils are in the valve cover.. and connect directly to the plugs