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Originally Posted by martyrant
Sorry, took me a few days to get time to get back to this...just tried running a jumper wire from battery negative terminal to the points, key on, still nothing when I open the points gently with a flathead. Can points themselves go bad? Or am I missing something else here?
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Where on the points did you connect the jumper wire to? If you went on the screw terminal, this test tells you nothing.
This problem is a simple matter of battery and ground, and is one of them missing. There is no reason for this to be so difficult.
The simplest thing you have to do is disconnect completely the wire from the
negative side of the coil, that is, the wire going to the points.
Put a meter or a light on the
lug of the coil where you took the wire off.
Turn the key on and off. If the light or meter shows 12 volts working with the key then your good from the key switch. If not, your coil could be bad or pursue the trouble towards the switch.
If the trouble is not coming from the switch or the coil,.....
Then set your meter to ohms and connect one lead to ground on the engine block and the other lead to the end of the wire that you took off of the coil.
When the points are closed you will see continuity to ground.
Rotate the engine by hand until the points open and you should lose the continuity to ground.
If you do not lose continuity when the points open, the points are shorted.....replace them.
If you do not see any continuity when the points are closedl, the points are not making contact when they close, clean the contacts or better yet replace them.