1987 Dodge Ram 50 2.0 Just Died

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I tend to take the coil wire off the distributor,ground it across the body/frame and turn the key over and check for sparks.If no sparks,might be coil.

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also,on a 87 we had a few years ago,the fusible link went out but that killed alot of the eletronics.
if you have the ballist resistor on the driver side wheel well,ours went and and wouldn't start