Dizzy - My head is spinning!

[LowStandards]

Help!

I'm having an issue with the dizzy on my new donor engine for the Suzuki.

Its a Merc lump and it ran fine before we pulled it out.
Now my wiring skills must be lacking or i'm missing something as the engine turns over fine, i'm getting a nice strong spark from the coil, but its not being distributed by the dizzy.

Any idea why? Whats the crack with the 2 wires going into the dizzy, summat to do with a capacitor/resitor??? What does it do?

I'd of though if its sparking from the coil, the dizzy would just distribute the spark, but there's just nothing at the plugs

[daverapid]

I don't know what type or age of Merc engine you have. Does it have points ignition or is it electronic? The obvious thing to do first in either case is to make sure the dizzy is actually turning when you crank the engine.

[bodieanddoyle]

did you put the rotor arm back in its so easily done!
also check to see if the central carbon brush in the cap has colapsed or fallen out, I've seen it happen. prestige motor bits can be expensive (or joe public assumes so) and many cars don't get service bits like caps and rotors replaced fro the fear of price. instead its costs an arm and a leg when it breaks down on the m25 and they have to pay the recovery.
got to be cap/rotor related if your getting sparks at the coil, but not the plugs.
and I've forgotten what the 2 ht coil wires are for, I assume its a 190e engine tho? might be able to find out about the 2 leads tomorrow.
hope that helps

[LowStandards]

Its electronic, i have the module and everything, but its just not colapsing the coil to produce the spark!