For just doing that, no need for bypass wiring, or other extraneous niceties, so...

Wire from the distributor goes to the minus side of the coil, a hot positive wire goes to the plus side of the coil. Don't leave the coil plus wire on the coil for long. No need to connect these wires to check compression, just to start.

Plug wires are 153624


Deve

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