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Thunder938 Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:59 pm

I was dumb and put the 12v from the bat to the (-) side of the coil with the wire from the coil to the condenser. No spark..found the mistake and put the 12v feed to the (+) side of the coil..still nothing..changed the coil out ..nothing..Did I fry the condenser?

Thunder938 Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:40 pm

also with a test light on the neg. of coil and cranking the motor the light does NOT Flash..

Dale M. Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:57 pm

Thunder938 wrote: also with a test light on the neg. of coil and cranking the motor the light does NOT Flash..


Light on or off?...

IF test light off, you have a short in distributor, possible blown condenser or stuck points (closed) ..... IF light on you have a "open" circuit between points and coil..... But just reversing connections to coil should not have any disastrous effect on points or condenser...



Dale

Thunder938 Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:50 pm

thanks, I just found that the wire entering the dist. going to the points was burnt and a bare spot. Then the wire came right out of the shrink tube at the points end..so I will be changing the points..hope that does it.



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