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Originally Posted by mfarley
With the cardboard inserted, check across the points with an ohmmeter. If there's continuity, you have a short, either from the ignition cable being screwed in to the body to deeply, or your plate wire could be grounding out on the distributor body itself.
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Be very careful when checking "continuity" on any ckt with voltage on it, that is a good way to destroy your VOM (volt-ohm-meter). If you wish to check continuity there, unhook the battery first. It's going to be easier to just instead check for "voltage" with that VOM or a lite.