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I've had two bad coils, though neither were in T3's, they were in a Vanagon. The internal goo (sorry, tech talk) started leaking out, leaving a very sticky black mess under the coil. It would fail intermittently. I had been checking the continuity within it to find nothing wrong until it completely failed, the continuity did also. The other, while strictly speaking not a bad coil, I can describe the symptoms of a coil designed for an external resistor installed into a VW. It burns up points really fast, on the order of 200 miles. Replaced with new coil, all was well again. Been catching up on 1300 posts to the list, we just moved. Jeff '67 Sqbk in hibernation -----Original Message----- It's very unusual for a coil of any kind to fail. I've never seen a bad one, but I know that it does happen. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org