No, but I have power to both sides of it, and there is 7 volts at the POS side of the coil with the key on.
When I ran a wire from the POS battery terminal to the POS side of the coil, doesn't that eliminate that part of the equasion??
Yes it does George, you are bypassing the ballast resistor with the jumper wire.
Are the valve covers still off? Start from the beginning if they are meaning, put the crank at #1 TDC (or you could actually put it at 10 deg. before TDC) then double check that the rocker arms are loose on #1 cyl. Then double check the rotor is pointing to #1 in the cap and the points are just ready to crack open in the direction of rotation. I'm just trying to make sure your not 180 deg. off on the dist.
Wish I lived closer. I like this kind of shyte! KEEP SMILING