Missing spark gremlin strikes again!!!

[Nate Mellom <bronson@inwave.com>]

List, I need some help.  Seems a little green gremlin keeps showing it's 
ugly head adn it's getting depressing.  This is on the '81.  For some 
reason, my car sometimes runs out of spark, and my car dies.  Happened a 
couple of times now, I'll try and describe teh symptoms.
I'll be driving, the car will start lurching and jumping and die, like 
all of a sudden I get intermittent spark.  Sometimes it will start, I'll 
get a few feet down the road, and it will happen again.  Eventually it 
will refuse to start.  Last time it happened (couple of months ago), I 
followed the coil and specail coil checks in Bentley to the letter, and 
everything checked out.  Still no go.  So I pulled the cap and rotor, 
cleaned them off a little bit (they were still almost new), and guess 
what?  Yup, started.  So, on to last night.
Coming home from work on teh interstate, I started feeling that 
trademark hesitation and hoped I'd get home.  I stopped at work (halfway 
home) and I checked my rotor for fun, and it's half gone.  Yup, the 
business end is completely disintegrated!  The contacts on the cap are 
scored badly too.  Somehow, it was still running with half a rotor!!!  I 
decided to try and limp home, which I did stopped at the parts store, 
got a  new cap and rotor, installed them, and now I'm stranded there. 
 It won't start.  I hooked up my timing light to check for spark, and 
there isn't any.  I changed my coil and it made no difference.  My fuel 
pump relay is also not turning on, which I think is related.  Even if I 
jump the contacts, I get nothing.  Aside from the coil checks, ground 
checks, etc, what can I do to get my spark back?  Could I have a loose 
wire in the fuse block or something?  Fuses are all okay, by the way.  I 
need some help here, this is getting depressing.
Thanks,
Nate
'81
'84


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