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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 09:09 AM
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I thought you guys might want to know what the problem was -- wire from the coil to the distributor and over to the points was shorted out against the distributor body where it enters the bottom of the distributor. Thanks for all of your help.
 
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 11:05 AM
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I thought you guys might want to know what the problem was -- wire from the coil to the distributor and over to the points was shorted out against the distributor body where it enters the bottom of the distributor. Thanks for all of your help.
Glad you figured it out and thanks for the update
 
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 05:54 PM
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A common, but commonly overlooked, problem.
 
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