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She lives again! And got me home.

I checked the fuel filter, some sediment but mostly clear gas. I need to change this, but determined I couldn't remove it without risking damaging the fuel line and emptying my fuel tank (not sure about the later, but I didn't think the fuel pump was in the tank such that there would have been no restriction on flow and it would have emptied itself as I tried to reroute lines to bypass the filter.

I checked the coil to distributor wiring. It was damaged at the distributor end and very loose. I tweaked the electrical connector and reinstalled it.

No luck starting.

Jumper-ed around the ballast resistor. Some stuttering and then she started up. Removed the jumper and it kept running. Jumper wire was a borrowed multimeter lead (all I had at the time) and I couldn't afford for it to fall off.

Drove home without restarting and was able to restart several times without any issue once I got there.

I think I need to go read up on what the ballast resistor does, when it is and isn't used and so on to test it further. Also if it's part of the coil circuit I will check into that.

Thanks everyone for their helpful suggestions.

No one hurt, nothing broken, just another adventure,
JFS III