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Dec 23, 2007 | 06:29 PM

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on the way to work this morning my truck ('96 5.0) died out of nowhere. it died like i had turned off the key myself and it wont start back. my first thought was the ignition coil, so i picked up a new one and had no luck.

i pulled one of the plugs and it doesnt look like im getting any fire.
the distributor cap and rotor look good so at this point i dont know what it could be.

any ideas?

Dec 23, 2007 | 06:31 PM

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when it shut off did the lights on the dash come on or was they all off??

Dec 23, 2007 | 06:44 PM

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hmmm im not sure. but i did find it odd when the spedomoter went down to 0 and back up to however fast i was goin

Dec 23, 2007 | 06:51 PM

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when it shut off, if the lights on the dash didnt come on i would say its in the switch.. do you ever go to start it and the lights not come on??

Dec 23, 2007 | 07:15 PM

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nope, never had that happen

Dec 23, 2007 | 07:23 PM

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oh well, i thought it might be in the switch.. good luck on the finding the problem

Dec 23, 2007 | 07:29 PM

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thanks anyway. anybody else?

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Dec 23, 2007 | 08:27 PM

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thats something i had thought about but wasnt sure.
how would i go about having it checked?

Dec 23, 2007 | 08:35 PM

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If you take it to a parts store I believe they can test it. There was a few threads on this.

Dec 23, 2007 | 08:53 PM

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awesome! thank you very much

Dec 23, 2007 | 08:54 PM

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Dont worry about it. Let us know what happens.

Dec 24, 2007 | 01:40 PM

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brought it to autozone and sure enough, it was bad. grabbed a new one and it started right up.
it ran kinda bad at first and was throwing a good bit of white smoke (maybe from all the cranking yesterday?) but its all good now!