YES, the installation instrictions that should have come with the distributor. If you don't have them, go online to the manufacturers web site and they should have them or a number to call to get them.

MSD Drop and Drive electronic distributors use a stock 12 volt coil btw. This is a different variety. There's a few of them that need a standard coil - right Sam?

 

I will double check to see if the directions might have fallen out of the box in the morning. I did go to summit and tried to find the instructions but I couldnt find them. If I cant find them I will take a picture of the dist (where the tabs are to hook the wires up at) and hopefully you guys will be able to guide me on the right path. I guess if I hook the wire up to the wrong side the truck wont start but I dont know if it will damage anything if I hook it up wrong.

 

They may not tell you. Most of th eones I read tell yo to just hook up the wire to the ignition wire that used to go to the coil - no colors. Try these:

http://www.proformparts.com/PDF/Chev...structions.pdf

I looked at 20 web sies with installation instructions and all these guys are bloviating about this lubricant and oil pump shaft etc etc. - and that for pages, but not one says at the end to "hook the "XXX" colored wire up to the ignition lead from the ignition switch."

If the two leads are red and green, the red one gets the power and the green one is for the tach. Red and black - not sure.

Someone here has to have one of these things installed and knows.

Edit note: Take a look at the cap and see if it is labled "Batt" and "Tach" where the wires come out. If it is then the wire under "Batt" is the one that takes the power in from your ignition switch. Also, check to see if the wires there are plugged into "terminals" on the unit or if they just "come out" from under the cap - have you taken the cap off at all and looked?

 

Yea I've been looking all over myself, I didnt know if instructions for a chevy would work or not. I'm still kind of holding out that maybe the instructions are on the floor in the garage...lol

 

Check my edit note in the post above.

 

the cap should be marked somehow on the place where it hooks up . they are in the oe case . ran these dizzy's for years in dirt cars with no problems . i can't really remember , but i want to say the lead closest to the front { if its in the oe chevy /gm spot in back of the motor } is the power for the distributor . been a long while since i've played with one . the only reason why i didn't cut down one of these for the flatty is it wouldn't clear the 8ba heads . they are dain near trouble free !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ok I took a pic of the dist cap, I do have 2 tabs where I can connect a 12 volt wire to but I don't know which one it connects to. I looked all around that area to see if it was marked but there isn't any marks to say which is the hot wire in. So now all I have to do is figure that out and I'm good to go...

 

So, do you have a plug for that? I'm guessing that's where you need to start.

 

hey tard there's a late 70's early 80's black camaro i see running around auburn and was for sale , go find it open the hood and snipe the plug ..... i'm sure he won't notice it ........LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I have the 3 prong plug that comes up from the lower part of the dist, the 2 prongs didn't come with a plug and from what I'm understanding is 1 of them is for the ignition hot wire and the other is for the tach. I just have to find out which prong is which between the 2 of them.

 

LMAO.. Nah he wont never know its gone huh....lol

 

its a ch83y they never run long enough for the owners to figure 'em out ......... see ya down that way in a bit heading out for my express run that passes through there !!!!!!! { run and hide while you still have the chance now !!!!!!!!!!!! }

 

no worries there its bedtime for me... ill be dead to the world in about 15 minutes...lol

 

Don't mean to hijack...But Julie, I want that MSD for my 272 Y block, already got the flamethower coil...and the electronic points to put in cause I couldn't afford the MSD...But boy they are spendy!!!

 

Hello, I just got one of these at Kragen, but you can get it at Summit as well.
ACCEL 170072 - ACCEL HEI Power Pigtails - Overview - SummitRacing.com
There is a mark on the connector that slides into the groove in the cap to register the pwr and tach connectors. I think it was about $5 at Kragen. Steve