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No. The coil has to do with spark to ignite fuel inside your engine. There is probably something wrong with your ignition system or your starter.
No. It will just misfire.
If the coil is producing a spark then the HT lead between them is breaking down.
The spark is always blue. If your coil is bad your engine will misfire.
Check the coil, as that is where the spark comes from.
A bad ignition coil will cause your engine not to have any spark. Without any spark the engine cannot start or run.
If you know the coil is good then the Igniter is bad. It is right below the coil.
If you don't have a known good coil wire to substitute, try hooking a spark plug to the coil wire and grounding it to the engine. Then crank the engine to see if there is spark.
It might be that you are not getting spark to your spark plug. Check your coil and the connection to yourcoil. If coil is giving spark check the spark plugs and the spark plug wire. The fumes that you smell is the gas that is being pumped into the engine but not being burned because there is no spark. that is my opinion, I may be wrong.
There are no spark plugs in a diesel engine therefor no plug wires thus no distributor and no coil.
On the 2.0 L - SPI engine and the 2.0 L Zetec engine follow the spark plug wires from the spark plugs to the Coil Pack The 2.3 L engine has a Coil On Plug ( C.O.P. ) ignition system
Follow any of the spark plug wires from the spark plug to the top of the engine and they all will meet at the coil pack