Its a lttle ceramic bar looking thing. It has a wire going inside it if its cracked that could be it.If its cracked and you try starting it the wire inside it glows red and your car wont start. Its on the coil in a little bracket thats were it should be.

 

cheers des :D

Edited September 12, 200620 yr by too quick

ah yep a reistor in a ceramic housing connected to and next to the ignition coil saw one in a ke55 today at the wreckers but havent noted one one my car unless its hiding somewhere ill suss it out cheers

they can get really hot so don't burn yourself. I'm not sure what they even do but the cars like to have them.

they get hot because they limit the current in the circuit this creates heat giving it the potential to get so hot it melts the metal inside losing contact between the two ends.

Hi,

My KE30 witha 3K had this problem once before. But my fix was hard to find easy to fix.

What happened is in the dissy cap the small spring loaded carbon rod that touches the top of the rotor and connects it to the coil broke off so it wasnt getting a good connection and spark was jumping here. Could never get engine to run fast some times start. So cheak this is still there and hasnt broken off on you.

 

Cameron

cheers checked this when i checked the leads it pushes up fine n all I'm gonna check the resistor n test the ignition coil

Hi,

I find the coils on the standard rolla are crap put a GT40 on it much better power fuel economy and starting and much better as my original coil shit its self

 

Cameron

cheers , i put a bosch gt40 in with a resistor on the original bracket but the points actually ended up being the problem , i checked them when i did the ignition timing but since then they pitted n there was no gap, so made a gap n taadaah she started! runs fine but I'm getting new points today n i think ill look closer next time to avoid being imobile ! cheers for all your help guys

good stuff :D

did the points the other day and has been fine since, also got a new fuel filter cuz the old one had 2 straight nozzles n i needed one with the right angle turn to fit nicely and also got smaller hoses to make sure there would be no petrol leaking ( replaced 5/16" with 1/4")