Posted by George on Tuesday, August 05, 2003 at 11:30AM :
I changed the points, they did look bad so I thought I had found the problem. No dice, still won't start. When cranking with ign on, there is no visible spark across the points.
Now, I don't get any voltage at the minus terminal on the coil, but I do on the pos side. Before, I thought I got voltage on both sides. Does this at least indicate that the filter on the bottom of the distibutor (square piece held on with four screws) is ok?
Where should I be getting the voltage reading (with ign on) off the coil, from the pos or neg terminal or both?
Thinking I might as well replace the coil, I took one out of spare parts distributor. With that one in place, I could not get the distributor cap to fit tight. Looking more closely at them, they are not exactly identical. Has anyone run into this problem??
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