Ok when it comes to the old Samurai carb, and ignition system, I am a master! But I now bow down to the mighty Track/Kick gurus for help with this problem!
We are going to do a 1.6 swap into my Nephew's samurai. We bought a donor(1991 4 door Sidekick) from a friend...and he bought it from another friend Roll Eyes The first guy had it running, and said it sounded good. He had to swap the dist from his truck to get it going. The second guy has embarked on throwing parts at it, and never got it running. It has no spark. Power at the coil, and the module on top oif the coil bracket.
Guy one said the guy he got it from had changed the dist module, and it never ran again. With his it did though. I saw something on here while searching that said the modules don't interchange between years....how can you tell them apart? are there tests to see if the module is good? I read something about 4 pin, and 3 pin modules??? All of the info is kinda' vague though.
I work on motorcycles for a living...I mess with electronic ignition, and FI every day, but 2 dozen people have been jacking with this thing, so it's hard to tell where to start.
I want to hear it run in the Sidekick before I pull it to swap.

Are you sure its the dist and not the ECM? pretty common problem. Happened to me twice

There are two types of distributor sensors used on Zuk motors. One is a Hall type sensor, putting out voltage in a characteristic sine wave. The other is an optical sensor, which puts out a square wave. If you use the wrong sensor for your particular ECM, it won’t work. As me how I know……….:mad3: :rolleyes:

Across the Zuk line, I can’t tell you which motors came with which sensors. What I can say is that the 1998 1.3 8V monopoint EFI that came originally in may Samurai had an optical sensor and that the 1.6 16V monoponit EFI that I took from a 1991 Swift used a Hall sensor. And that the sensor in a carbed 1.3 is also Hall. I used the disty assembly from a carbed Samurai to get my Swift motor to run. But even then, it wasn’t PnP, as the Samurai disty has an internal ignitor. I had to do some wire splicing to use the external ignitor from the Swift motor.

HTH.