Jonas, your truck could have an ignition wire with a built in resistance
wire to the + side of your coil . With this setup you will usually see 2
wires on one terminal hooked the + side of the coil one wire to the starter
solenoid and the other to the ignition switch. To check disconnect this wire
from coil and with switch on read voltage if it reads a few volts less than
12v it is a resistance wire and needs no resister of any kind built in or
external.
Lee
Prosser WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Thaler" <jonasthaler@jonasthaler.com>
To: "Old-Chevy-Truck" <old-chevy-truck@egroups.com>; "Oletrucks"
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] 59 3200 ignition question
> Greetings...
>
> I have a 59 3200 pickup with a 235, three on the tree, a completely
> stock pre-loved farm truck. It is about as original as it can be,
> but I don't know exactly what happened when the previous owner had
> the engine rebuilt.
>
> I left the ignition turned on and boiled the coil this weekend trying
> to make various engine adjustments (about which I will whine in a
> future posting!) In replacing the coil, I learned that from 60 on
> these trucks were equipped with a resistance wire in the instrument
> panel harness rather than an in-line resistor. But I cannot find a
> resistor anywhere in my engine compartment, nor any obvious place
> where one used to be mounted. (I am familiar with the little white
> ceramic units from other vehicles.) So I bought a high-performance
> coil which is supposed not to need the external resistor.
>
> Do the auto electric whizzes out there concur that I did the right
> thing?
>
> Thanks. And thanks for all the fun reading; other people's truck
> adventures is my favorite escape from work.
>
> jt
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