You need to buy the whole coil as its all one unit. Chevy Dealer list price in July was $127.00 for my coil, my cost through a buddy's discount was $89.00
4 -6 screws hold it down, remove the ignition wires and the wires underneath the coil that connect to the ignition module.
You might want to get the gasket that goes between the coil & ign Module. It will no doubt break apart when you remove the coil.
Good Luck !
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Are you certain it is the coil. You should be able to verify that with a resistance check once you get the coils unplugged. I would be more suspicious of the module.
Resistance check: Could you please go into more details how I can do a resistance check on the coils?
What should the resistance readings be? Thanks.
I have never worked on this distributorless coil in our 86 Oldsmobile even though we bought the car new in '86. We know very little on how this type of coil works or how to work on it.
We have been trying to educate ourselves on this distributorless system by studying our 86 Olds Haynes book and by checking out auto sites on the web.
Still, trying to replace or check out the coil and module assembly is new to us.
We keep the car around for sentimental reasons. Our main car is a 1998 Dodge large passenger van that seats 7 and that has about 100,000 miles on it.
We have been lucky with the 86 Oldsmobile, because the coil is the original coil that came with the car.
Module: How can we check that the source of the no-spark problem to cylinders 2 and 5 is the module instead of the coil that provides juice to cylinders 2 and 5?
The reason I ask is that the module seems like it is hard to take off, because the 3 nuts that hold the module to the engine are in hard to reach places.
My 92 G/A has 3 separate coils. Each measures about .5 ohms on the primary side and about 11 ohms on the secondary. However, measuring the ohms won't tell you if the insulation breaks down when hot and under a 30kv load. A bad plug or wire will destroy a coil. It will then cascade the current and destroy part of the ign.mod.
The only resistance measurement you can make without pulling the coils is the secondary. There should be a reading from plug wires 2 to 5. It should be the same as you would read from 1 to 4 and 3 to 6.
I am not real certain just how that module is fastened but I think there are screws that hold the coil and module together. Then you will see wires from the module to the coils. I think they are just spade lugs that slide on. They could be dirty too I suppose. There is one wire that attaches to all three coils. I expect that is 12 volts. There are separate wires to each coil that come from the module.
I will send an email with a diagram that may be similar to your installation..
******* Thanks for the link. I'm sure the information at the above link will help me a lot in trying to understand the 86 Oldsmobile distributorless coil system.
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