I don't think your problem is done yet.....
Sounds like you forgot to wire in the ballast resistor between the
ignition switch run terminal and the coil. This drops the coil voltage
from 12 volts to around 6 volts and keeps the coil from oozing brown
liquid and the points from welding together if the key is on, the
engine is not running, and the points happen to be closed. It also
makes the points last longer.
The ballast resistor is usually a rectangular ceramic block mounted
somewhere on the engine side of the firewall.
There is a bypass terminal off the starter solenoid that provides
pure 12 volts to the coil when the starter is engaged. This is to
give the truck a hotter spark when it is being started.
I hope you also replaced the condenser (the little round cylindrical
capacitor in the distributor) when you replaced the distributor points.
It's been over 20 years since the manufacturers put a point style
ignition in a car or truck and we sometimes forget (or never learned)
how they work. These electro-mechanical systems the Ancient Ones
used are a marvel of design from a time when there were no computers
and not much in the way of electronics.
Don't feel bad, I learned this from my dad when these were "newtrucks".
Bruce Kettunen
57 3200
Mt. Iron, MN
At Monday, 2 April 2001, you wrote:
>Over the last few months, my 55 2nd has been running worse and worse.
>Compression was good (350 smallblock), which sort of limited my
problems
>down to either ignition or fuel. A month or so ago, I basically
put a new
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