Trouble shooting help - '46 Deluxe

[glennpm]

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Originally Posted by glennpm

Try running a wire that goes from the battery to the DISTRIBUTOR side of the coil, bypassing the resistor.

Is this correct? I would have thought you would run the wire from the battery (non-grounded side) to the ignition switch side of the coil.

Running the test wire from the battery to the ignition side would be a way to see if the ignition switch is causing the problem. Running the test wire as I mentioned, would bypass the ignition switch and the resistor. To make a permanent change to bypass the resistor during starts, yes you would run a new wire from the ignition switch, to the distributor side of the resistor..



This change will give you battery voltage for starting and not a reduced voltage for protection of the points.

Glenn