Ignition system failure

Start by cleaning the major underhood ground points, on the head near the throttle body and under the master cylinder.

Thanks, Lanny. I will give it a try.

I have had two Mazda dealers insist that it is built into the Ignition coil, which is true for the 94 and higher. The third one finally found it in some diagram and called it an "electronic ignition". part number B61P18251. $244.15... and 2-3 days from factory.

David,

Make sure it's not your timing belt. When the belt breaks, you get no spark because the cam isn't turning, thus not sending a signal to the sensor and not firing the plugs. You can look through the oil filler hole to see if the cams are turning when you crank the engine. Very, very, very few ignition failures (and even those are often a bad ground and not a true failure), timing belts break all the time if beyond the change interval. Good luck with it.

Tom

David wrote:

Thanks! Everyone.

Cleaning the grounding... I thought was a sure thing. It looked horrible. But noting.

Looking at the Timing Belt... This was the last thing on my list. The belt was only a year old. Good thing for LLT warranties from AutoZone.

No Cam movement. I can only hope it really is the timing belt.

Thanks again for everyone's help. Now the Hard part begins. .

I finished putting the timing belt in last night about 8:00PM and she sounds great. I am starting to get good at this.

There was no LLT on the belt from autozone only (3 months). I used a Goodyear belt this time.

Does anyone have any ideas for a better belt?

Mazda.