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30 Closed Cab PU · 03-30-2020, 10:50 AM

Am curious as to why you feel the need to do this since the distributor is well grounded mechanically at multiple places. Simple cleaning/freshening of dist. mechanical grounding including the Battery grounding cable on both ends, is all that is needed.
I am unaware of a good way to measure other than closing the points with ignition on, and measuring DC volts across the closed points to battery ground, should be extremely close to 0.0 volts DC. Just do not leave the points closed for long as it will heat up the coil.

Hope you do not mind the second guessing, but are you having some symptoms?

03-30-2020, 10:50 AM	#2
30 Closed Cab PU Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Posts: 2,332	Re: grounding distributor Am curious as to why you feel the need to do this since the distributor is well grounded mechanically at multiple places. Simple cleaning/freshening of dist. mechanical grounding including the Battery grounding cable on both ends, is all that is needed. I am unaware of a good way to measure other than closing the points with ignition on, and measuring DC volts across the closed points to battery ground, should be extremely close to 0.0 volts DC. Just do not leave the points closed for long as it will heat up the coil. Hope you do not mind the second guessing, but are you having some symptoms?