- jumper the coil - to ground for a moment to and unground and it will spark when ungrounded; make sure you are insulated from this jumper as you can get a jolt from it
How exactly do you do this jumpering of said negative stud on the coil? Do you just unhook the neg stud wire and connect/unconnect back on the stud in a pattern like morse code and watch the end of the coil tower wire held 1/4" away from something grounded like the head? Or do you connect a secondary ground wire from the negative stud on coil (leaving the original factory negative wire hooked up) and ground that in a pattern? I don't follow here. And I'm assuming the car needs to be on "run" correct?
Finally, did you set the reluctor gap in the new distributor to .008" with a non-steel gapping tool? (Brass strip or matchbook cover)
Yes, I have a set of brass feelers. Set to .008, then test fit the .010 feeler and used very light force to remove the .010.
You ought to recheck the resistance through the coil from coil + to coil -. Set the meter to the lowest scale (it may be 200 ohms) and recheck that resistance with all other connections to the coil removed. You ought to measure 1 to 2 ohms. (Make sure you connect the 2 meter leads together first, record that reading, and then subtract that from the coil + to - reading.) (The .002 reading is likely 2 ohms but make sure.)
