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billw

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It wouldn’t be the first time a new one of those packs were bad. You say all the stuff is new….Why? Power packs can last five minutes or five decades. You never know. Age doesn’t seem to be a factor. A pack is not something that I would be personally replacing as a service item, like points and condensers. Do you still have the old pack? Was it working? Can you at least use it as a test? Too bad you cut off the plugs but you could at least use test leads, to try it…..

By the way, be careful working with the coil primary and charge coil wires….there can be a couple of hundred volts lurking there.

And finally, letting the spark jump an inch and a half, while impressive, is not a good idea. At some point, the electricity is going to decide that it’s easier to go through the internal insulation of the coil, than it is to jump such a large gap. If that happens, you will also be needing a new, new coil.

Long live American manufacturing!