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I am working on a propane GLC040 Yale forklift from the early 90's for a friend of mine. It was a crank , no start and had no spark. I figured out the igniter ( ign.. module) was bad in the distributor. Since it's old and the distributor was worn, I replaced the entire distributor and ballast resistor. Engine starts and runs fine now. My question is about the wiring to the coil. There is a black wire with a red trace that goes to positive side of coil. It has power with the key in the run position. There is also a blue wire with white trace that has 12 v with key on that runs to the resistor. Then a wire leaving resistor to positive side of the coil. Shouldn't the black wire with red trace only have 12 v in the start position? It doesn't make sense that it has 12 v in the run position and also have a resistor wired to it. Any help would be appreciated.
  • Posted 11 Oct 2022 15:09
  • By Mike_Brown
  • joined 11 Oct'22 - 2 messages
  • Maryland, United States

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