[T3] Testing out a coil, car not starting

["Constantino Tobio" <ctobio@gmail.com>]

<x-flowed>So, my 73 Fasty won't start. From the looks of it, I'm not getting
spark- holding the coil wire near a ground shows no spark whatsoever,
and I smell fuel in my exhaust, so I'm pretty confident that the fuel
part of the operation is good.

I get voltage to the coil- on both sides, but I also get voltage on
both sides when the points are open. I tested out the points and
they're not shorting. I swapped in a new condenser, but this was just
throwing parts at the issue- both condensers are Bosch, as are the
points.

Disconnecting terminals 1 and 15 of the coil, and putting a multimeter
across both lugs, gives me a resistance of zero ohms, and running the
meter for continuity test shows it's indeed continuous across the two
lugs. Resistance from each lug to the coil wire connector is around 8k
ohms. I'm reading that resistance across 1 and 15 should be more like
20,000 ohms.

So, indeed it appears that my coil would be shorted across the two
windings somehow.

Is this diagnosis sound? The coil appears to be an OE black coil, best
as I can tell its the one it came with.

If I do indeed have a sound diagnosis, Jim- I may be interested in one
of your OE black coils.

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