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<x-flowed>Found it. Points were fine, I had an aftermarket tach hooked up to the neg side of the coil. The tach wire shorted out somewhere, grounding the coil, stopping the dizzy from signaling it to fire. Pulled the tach wire and she cranked right up. I'll rewire it this weekend. Thanks for all the suggestions guys.
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 21:40 -0400, Graham wrote: > I spun the engine by hand, opened the points, and the coil has 12 > volts all the time, regardless of whether the points are opened or > closed. What does this mean? What should I check? > Points are not closing the circuit. Clean or replace the points. Check the wire from the coil to the distributor.
-- russw <russw@classicvw.org>
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