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Originally Posted by 31 Woody
The cutoff is between the battery and starter. The ignition is a pop out, but as I stated, the car shuts off when the popout is pushed in and it won’t start in the off position either.
I am thinking a ground kill may be a better arrangement on the cutoff.
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If the engine stops when you push in the pop-out switch, it is successfully breaking the connection between the coil and the points... but if the switch is defective (or if the wires inside the instrument panel are shorting out) the coil is still finding a ground in there somewhere.
So I suspect the problem lies inside the instrument panel, ether switch or wiring.
I also suspect your master switch is defective. Test with a meter. It may not allow enough current through to crank the starter over, but it is allowing 5 amps through the coil.
Hope that helps.
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