MSD brain teaser

67Dart273 said

12V at the white? I'd have to look this up, but I DON'T THINK SO

White is for breaker points.

What do you mean "the two old distributor wires?"

You talking about the existing Mopar distributor? They have to be wired to trigger the MSD

http://www.msdignition.com/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=15032386165

HEAVY BLACK........ground

HEAVY RED.............continuous 12V

SMALL RED.............switched 12v IE "ignition run."

ORANGE............Coil POS

BLACK................Coil NEG

NOTICE ONLY THOSE TWO WIRES AND NOTHING ELSE should be connected to the coil. DO NOT connect a tach to the coil!!!!

WHITE.........tape off and DO NOT GROUND. This is for points trigger

VIOLET and

GREEN These are the magnetic trigger IE factory Mopar distirbutor

Re read the destructions carefully. To test spark using magnetic trigger short and "unshort" the green and violet.

"or" repeatedly short / unshort the white to ground.

THE WHITE MUST be taped off when in operation

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Jeez bud I'm really confused now between the msd distributor instructions and the msd ignition box instructions. The distributor instructions say to use the white wire and not the green and violet but the ignition box instructions say to use violet and green. Which should it be? I'm very afraid I hurt something the first attempt I made at hooking up the msd distributor because the mopar distributor (that always worked) wouldn't work when I put it back in.

And as for the factory wires to the distributor (light brown and dark brown/white) they're just hanging there not doing anything, is this where I failed? Lol. I did;

Distributor orange - ignition box white

Dist red - ign box small red and factory switched power (blues/browns from old ballast resistor)

Dist black - ground (same location as engine grd)

Ignition heavy red - straight to battery positive

Ignition black - battery ground

Ignition orange - coil positive

Ignition black - coil negative

Ignition green - nothing (because instructions said to use the white at ign box)

Ignition violet - nothing (because instructions said to use the white at ign box)

Tach to tach input at ignition box

If you see my issue here 67dart273 please help me out! I could really use the help. Electrical is like voodoo magic to me.