1988 Shadow Problem.

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This morning while driving home from work, my car stalled out on me.
The car had also been acting a little lower powered the night before.
Gas was fine as my dad and I completely bypassed the pump/filter stuff
and added gas directly. He said to say that it had no spark. Is it
possible that this is a bad coil and if so, how easy is it to fix and
how expensive will it be? (approximations are fine.) Oh, we did test
the distributer cap and there seems to be no problem there.

Kiro
(not using real name)

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A common failure in this car is the Hall Effect sensor which is located
inside the distributor. Look up allpar.com for discussion.

 

I would suspect a broken timing belt.. you can pull the small plastic plug
on the front of the belt cover and see if the can gear is turning while
someone cranks the engine...

Belt not much but .. it you aren't a do it yourselfer.... I would suspect a
couple hundred to replace it.. + replace the water pump while you are in
there...