Quote Originally Posted by Calbert View Post
A few years back I bought a new set of leads for the old ute and had a simmilar problem,turned out the lead from coil to dizzy was buggered!! put the old one back on and away i went.SO maybe check your leads,just cause they look good doesn't mean they are.Don't give up...
yeah i have a new set of leads for it. Ill bang them on tomorrow but i'm not sure that when they fail that they do so intermittently. it will start sometimes but more often than not it doesn't. Ill check the lead from the dist to coil but ive seen some that are absolutely caked in corrosion and still work fine.

The inside of the distributor looks like its covered in surface rust

I haven't changed distributor yet but this may be the culprit or distributor module??