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  1. SixBuy

    M45

    Back to the coil - I should have said "Check the voltage on the hot side of the PRIMARY" ( that's the screw terminal other than the one that goes to the points). It's marked with a "+" on most coils. Incidentally, reversing the primary connections to a coil will often cause misfires because the...
  2. SixBuy

    M45

    If I were betting, I'd bet on it being an ignition problem. Most likely a coil going bad. Most of the battery-and-coil ignition systems also carried a ballast resistor in series with the coil to keep it from burning up if the points were closed 100% of the time. I don't know if that's the...
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