Electronic Ignition Conversion HELP

OK, now put your meter on the coil + and while watching meter, crank the engine USING THE KEY. You should get a reading very close to battery voltage. Battery voltage while cranking should be NO LESS than 10.5 volts.

A better way of doing this is to measure the voltage drop DIRECTLY. The way to do this is clip one probe of the meter to coil + , and the other directly to the battery.

WHILE the engine is turning over WITH the key in start, you should read NO MORE that 1/2 volt drop

If the voltage looks OK, you might have a lot of wear in the distributor, or a bad pickup coil in the distributor. A recent conversation with a tune-up guy claims that these things evidently lose enough magnetism that they get intermittent.