Does a coil just up and fail or does it die an agonizing death? I was out motoring around all day seeing the sights and then stopped for a while. Headed out again about an hour later and the engine backfired through the carb a few times and then quit. There was plenty of gas shooting through the carb. It was too rough to check for spark at the time.<br /><br />It started up the next day in the driveway and ran at idle for 1/2 hour, then quit. It started right up again, but I had to increase the idle to 1000 rpm. It ran fine at that speed.<br /><br />Does this sound like the coil? Is there any way to test these things or does a guy just replace them every so often?<br /><br />This is a 1994 VP, so no points. How often does an ignition module go bad?
