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In your glove box under the registration and insurance card, buried under the gas mileage log and old reciepts... you should always carry 1 ballast resistor, 1 new EI module, and 1 standard rotor...
While on the side of the road, I'd have pulled the dist cap first, and checked to see if 1) the rotor is still intact, and 2) if your girl cranks the ignition- the rotor is actually moving (or put a remote starter switch set in your tool box)...
-D.Idiot
(you put in a new timing chain when you got the car...right?!?!?)
That I did not. It's on the list, but I hadn't gotten around to ordering one yet. I just now got it towed back to the base, so Monday (I work this weekend, or else tomorrow I would be tearing into it) I'll pull the valve cover and see if they still move. I'd be happy if I can find something I can fix in a parking lot.
I don't have a ballast resistor, but I found a source for some MO-3000 rotors and I'll order the correct distributor cap as well. On that note, my current cap and rotor are undamaged, and the rotor turns when I crank the engine (and also has no freeplay either).
Well I can now say that both of my vehicles have broken down on me once, though I blame my own dumb ass for getting stranded in my Toyota...
Edit: if it is in fact the timing chain that took a dump, is Cloyes still considered one of the better ones to get?