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On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 22:57, The Canadian wrote: > I just tried again. When I opened and closed the points manually I would > get a flash but rarely. I tried grounding the wire and finally I'm getting > a flash every time I open the points. I guess I wasn't grounding the wire > well enough before. The cap is a bosch T3 unit, the button is sticking down > and I do only get Bosch tune up parts, thanks to past advice from the list. > I don't have a helper right now so I can't do the other test. If I can find > a long enough piece of wire I will try a direct line from the battery to the > coil but it does seem as though it's working until it gets to the > distributor, doesn't it? > What is the resistance of the rotor?? It should be about 1500-3000 ohms. How about the plug wires? They should be about 1000 ohms. My '66 has to be jumpered straight from the battery to get it started. Until I can get into it farther, and find the high resistance in the wiring. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~