Chrysler Repair: 95 neon: no start, analog ohmmeter, ohm meter


Question
I checked the coils center pin to the outside pins and got a reading of 0 on both using my analog ohm meter.(don't have a digital ohm meter yet) I have a 60 pin connector going to the pcm. I checked pins 2 and 3 going to ground and got a reading of 0 on both, and when I checked pins 2 and 3 going to the disconnected plug from the coil I got all infinite readings, so I'm not sure I was checking the right pins. After I did all this I put everything back together, and started the car and was going tot go for a test drive. I backed the car out of the garage started down the driveway and the car stalled. I started it back up and it ran for about 2 seconds and stalled again. Now the car will not start at all. I have done nothing else under the hood to try to get it to start like wiggiling wires or unpluging the coil and pluging it back in like I have done in the past to get it going, and I really dont now if those things helped or if it was just a time issue. The car has been sitting for a day now and it still will not start. It just cranks over but will not start. Any thoughts on what to do next? Thanks again.

Answer
Hi Ned,
The readings you got do not indicate any problem with the wires from the coil to the pcm. But whether the coil itself is OK probably can't be told with an analog ohmmeter because we are looking for subtle differences in very low ohm readings. Have you checked for fault codes using the ignition key and check engine light since this event? "on-off-on-off-on and leave on" doing that in 5 seconds or less elapsed time. Then count the flashes of the light and let me know. Repeat counts for accuracy.
Roland