Iris_Heart

Ah, so it's for the anti-dieseling or whatever device then, that thing is broken on mine so I just pulled the wire out and left the connector empty. Got the thing running anyway after cleaning the contacts properly, now have to hook up the alternator wiring, do brake lines and put the rear bumper back on, should be about ready for inspection and to be put back on the road.

I will, once I get all this forehazard and loose wires stuff figured out. I wouldn't be surprised if the piston rings were stuck though, car hasn't been ran since 87 I found some stuff in some hayness manual that the red wire from the coil should run to the starter solenoid battery terminal, but there's no "tongue" for it to clip to and honestly I have no recollection how coils are supposed to be hooked up

As an added bonus, here's me learning the hard way that not every black cable is a ground cable, you can still see the cable I ran straight from the starter solenoid to ground, learned from the smoke that it was also connected to the battery and not a ground cable.

Sup, name's Iris, I've acquired myself a 1982 Skoda 120GLS for like 200 bucks, the engine was almost completely disassembled when I got it and I've spent the past few weeks putting it together. Now I've got it to the point that it cranks, but I noticed that one of the ignition coil wires is not connected to anything, the red wire here. It is connected to the, what I believe is the positive terminal, and the other end was hanging free near the starter, I've no idea where this should be going to, coil does seem to be getting power from somewhere as I measured the poles with a multimeter and got 6V with the power switched on. Anyone mind pointing me to the right direction? I've downloaded some sort of service manual, but they don't really mention wiring at all in there. Also I tried to do a compression test with my cheapo gauge and barely got 4.5 bar or about 50psi per cylinder, this does not seem good at all to me.