[Gord. B by the bay]

According to you notes when you "hot wired" it right from battery to distributor with the coil in the circuit it started immediately then run for a few days then started to miss etc running poorly I would be questioning the breakdown of the coil changw it with out disturbing anything else and if it start right up then you have a coil with poor windings, Give it a try Gord. B by the bay