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Check the coil, you should have about an ohm between the + and - terminals and about 9 kilo ohms between them and the high voltage coil. If not, take it back.

I checked the coil and it's good. I bought a efi 350 out of a 2002 silverado and am having a 9 inch built for it. Go big or go home!

i would replace the condenser i had the same problem with my truck and i didnt tighten it down enough but check by having someone else crank it over and see if your distrib. shaft is even turning and your dwell angle maybe off as well too!

i bought all new parts for the distributor including, cap, rotor, condenser, wires, and a coil and capacitor. Don't know what else to do.

Did you check the resistance of the coil wire? It might have a break in it.It will read as an open circuit.

You never reported verifying that the distributor is turning.

I straight wired the distributor to the coil and yes everything in the distributor moves and or opens. I have plenty of power where it is needed.

If everything checks out and the coil sparks when you test it using egg's method, check the voltage at the + terminal of the coil while the engine is cranking. If you see nothing or very low voltage, the resister bypass circuit has probably failed.

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-Micah
05 GTO 6.0
85 Yamaha RZ350

I'd go buy the cheapest coil they sell 15 bucks or so and see what happens. There should only be around 8 volts at the coil and points though. If you havent already check out the wiring diagram at the beginning of this site. It helped me out, my problem was the ballast resistor. It would start to start until you let off the key, then nothing.

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1980 4x4

As I mentioned on page 1, I still get 12 volts at the coil, but am now using the recommended ballast resister by MSD and the truck is still running!

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I've never been wrong! Once I thought I was, but I was mistaken.
Rick
Loranger, La
1980 Stepside LUV (Again)

You will get 12 volts at the coil if the engine comes to rest with the points open. If the engine stops with the points closed (same as coil - terminal grounded) you will get 6-8 volts. This is on a stock system.

It just occurred to me that the points could be adjusted to where they don't close, or something is not making contact not grounding when they close. They could even be badly burned.