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Ok, here's the current status. The new coil Jim sent me delivers a better looking spark- nice and blue when I manually move the points. Still, no start. Here's what I'm experiencing now. When you first turn the key, you hear one or more cylinders fire once. She really wants to start. Watching with a timing light I can clearly see that I'm getting a spark when that happens. The dwell meter jumps too. After that, the dwell meter sticks to zero and no spark, and I get nothing. I can clearly see the points moving back and forth. The points are new and properly gapped. When closed, the moving point is continuous to ground, when open it is not. I've tried two different condensers with the same result. If I actuate the points by hand, I get a spark. I even get a mild zap from the arc going across the points. Advance mechanism looks good, the distributor has little play. I do get a bit of a voltage drop when the starter cranks- down to around 10 volts at the coil. So at this point I'm stumped. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~