My passion is for the late 60's/ early 70's cars. Two of thecoolest things about these cars are the spica fuel injection system (USAand Montreal only), and the cigarette lighter.

I've never seen another lighter that you just dropped the cigaretteinto. A clever safety solution that has amazingly not been adapted by anyother make.

Too bad so many are broken. Smoking is less and less acceptableand so many people just look at them and wonder and more amazingly, fewit seems have figured out how to fix them.

It's a frigging cigarette lighter. How tough can it be?

Most people "know" how to use a test light, but forget how to think.

They're getting voltage at the spade terminal hot lead. They got a ground...therefore.....????? it's broken but incomprehensible how..... and leave it at that.
 

Try this,
 

Activate the lighter by pushing down on the plasic surroundat the mouth of the lighter.
    (it is unlikely a non working lighter would notalready be in this position, but possible.)

With your continuity tester, take one of the probes, stick it in wherethe cigarette goes, to the center of ther coil that gets hot. The otherprobe to ground of the lighter.
    You should read both continuity and resistance.

Now take the probe from coil and put it to the brass bolt coming outthe center bottom.
    You should get the same reading.

If you put it to the spade terminal attached to the brass fitting, youwill not.
    The spade terminal only LOOKS like it's a directconnection. It is actually a fused connector.

Or, try this,

Ground the unit,
Take the hot lead and put it to the center brass fitting. Be carefullholding the lighter, it gets warm quickly.
 

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