<<Make sure you have the wire that connects to the points on top of the
insulator. It sounds like you have the hot wire and/or the condenser wire
under the nylon insulator which is grounded.>>
The wires are insulated from the spring and therefore 1/2 the contact points
as it is supposed to be. This is what is so puzzling. If I test continuity
with my VOM by placing one probe on the white wire/condensor wire and the
other on the spring I only get connection when the points are closed. If I
push the points open with the probe the connection is broken, which is what is
supposed to happen. When I go out to the end of the wire where it connects to
the coil and connect that wire to one VOM probe and the other probe to
ground, when I crank the engine the ohmmeter should bounce back and forth as
the
points open and close, which is what I simulated by the exercise described
previously. It doesn't happen. The ohmmeter stays pegged. There is a short
somewhere but I cannot find it. Everything appears normal when I test
continuity but not when I crank the engine. There is not that much in there
to be
this complicated, but still. . .
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