MGB Ignition help

[Simon.MATTHEWS@st.com]

     Ross, your distributor ought to finction quite happily with an open 
     circuit (as measured by an ohmmeter), so 20Kohms does not neccessarily 
     imply it is bad. 
     
     When I worked for Lucas (!) they allowed 4 (I think) breaks in the HT 
     windings of an ignition coil. So there is a good chance that if you 
     try to measure the resistance of the HT side of the coil it will be 
     infinite. I could explain why all this works, but not now!
     
     Regards,
            Simon
     PS. you may have a bad distributor cap -- I'm just pointing out that 
     the evidence you have presented so far is not sufficient to convict!