anyway to test a distributor?

[artymillz]

I posted a few days ago thinking it was an oil issue...now that I ran all my test I'm pretty sure its the dizzy...I no they do alternators and stuff at autozone but I'm pretty sure they don't test dizzys...are there any tricks to find out if its the distributor?

[doitpropa]

pull a plug nd turn the motor over nd c if theres spark

[artymillz]

Ahh yes how stupid of me to forget that test....what I want to no is assuming there's no spark or little spark....how do u no what needs to be replaced in the dizzy...like the cap and rotor or the ignition coil...or the whole thing....because if I can only spend say 30 on replacing the cap and coil instead of 200 for the whole thing it would really help

[JDM_DC5]

take it to autozone or advanced i forgot witch one and they can test the coil and the icm

[artymillz]

Yea idk I called all of them and they sall said they won't test them

[JDM_DC5]

Yea idk I called all of them and they sall said they won't test them

its the way you word it happened to me too.. if you say "do you test distributors" they will say no because they dont test the distributor as a whole but they do test the coil and icm

[roe]

go get a shop manual and a multimeter, all the diagnostic tests are spelled out for you in the honda manual