Bypassed Ballast Resistor?

Thanks for the reply. I am going to pull the jumper and see what happens. The coil will remain exactly where it is. It turns out the MSD suggests not mounting it horizontally in the installation instructions.

I think I saw another thread with some pretty detailed instructions on testing the system for voltage related to the coil and Ballast resistor, so I'll go through that several time until I understand it and test it out thoroughly.

Thanks for your help.

JO