Ignition Issues, Crab distributor

[BIG KEV]

Originally Posted by glennpm

You’re doing the right thing on checking resistance. It’s making the coil hot.
Have you measured the coil’s resistance?

Well did continuity checks through everything. Distributor to the battery read 0.1 to 0.2 ohms on that check. On regular ohm setting got 0.02

Those same readings were from the body as well as to the motor in various places and bolts.

I went ahead and swapped back out to the 1.7 ohm Standard UC12t Coil with the ballast resistor. Watched voltage out of the ballast resistor running, 6.4 volts at idle, rev it up and get almost 8 out of it with the alt pumping up to 14.4 volts.

Went ahead and went to my old starter with the firewall mounted solenoid, I have a 4 wire solenoid, So I am running the ignition terminal off it to bypass the ballast resistor. Holy hell hit the starter it pops off now not even 1/8 turn of the crank.

Only time and testing will tell.