74 Duster (318) cranks, but no start. Need help.

supersoap33 said
I have a good voltage reading coming through from the battery to the column connector, but testing the brown wire coming back out of the firewall from the ignition switch, I'm only getting 0.7 volts. Then when that wire is plugged into the ballast resistor, it's reading the 4.6v that I also see at the coil with the key in the ON position. This is a 74, so the brown wire also splits as soon as it comes out of the firewall into four browns that go wherever they go.

Should the brown be having more voltage or no?

Also, the connectors going through the firewall seem like they can't come loose. They have this black plastic **** around them like a cocoon.

I don't know under what conditions you are reading this. With the key "in run" brown is getting feedback from the coil, and it will read "same as coil" plus

The only time the brown is feeding "hot" "same as battery" to the coil is when you have the key twisted to start.

The "cocoon" you mentioned may or may not be foam There are little latches on the connector terminals you can release with a very small screwdriver.

An example of the female side showing the latch
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Latch on male terminal

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