Stop in for a cup of coffee

IF you ran a wire from the batter to the coil and bypassed the resister but didn't remove the resistor I can believe that. Hell I believe everything you say .But try removing the resistor and using the hot wire I am just saying it will burn things up .I don't know why everyone just refuses to accept the fact that the resistor on a mopar has a function
FOR testing. Will eliminate that from the trouble shooting equation. I am trying to be helpful here...