No start issue Im a little frustrated

Back from my crosscountry adventure. 1660 miles in 2.5 days. ugh, was I beat last night, 3 beers to the wind and I was out.

Up this AM !

I have a ground wire junctioned to the block at the same point where the body is grounded to the block for the ignition box, and of course the block is connected directly to the neg terminal of the battery.

I'm pretty sure the dist is synched correctly, since its almost starting and when I put it in reversed it violently backfired a couple times.

Okay, I checked the resistance from the coil primary wire to the center connection in the dist cap. Its low - about 10,000 ohms. Ma mopar says per their service manual that when the resistance is less than 15,000 ohm to check for a faulty coil or coil to dist wire. Okay - I checked the wire its really low about 600 ohms. Not good. Checked another coil secondary wire I had laying around 11,000 ohms (should be okay). Gonna check some other coils I have laying around and compare their primary resistances to the output and see what looks right vs wrong.

I think I might have found it, but not holding my breath. I assume with low resistance that the coil or the wire is grounding partially causing the low energy spark ??

ram charger - where did you used to live ?

Back later with more results ---