OK, this morning I installed my new coil and when though all my running settings on Lucille. Set the timing with a timing light, Set the RPM to 475 at idle. Set my spark plug gap to .040. Adjusted my points to .015 to get a dwell reading between 32 and 40. Lucille sounded good and I took her out for a test drive. Drove locally about a mile and was returning home when all of a sudden she just died. Have plenty of gas in her. I could turn her over but no spark. Could this simply be the condenser and points? I noticed the points are slightly burnt. How do you determine if all this was was a failed condenser? Would a failed condenser cause total failure of the distribution system. I checked the new coil and it read 1.7 ohms on the primary and 10,200 ohms on the secondary.
Its weird, I have to drive out of my place by climbing a very steep driveway that is about 350 feet long rising to about 55 feet before I get to the top of the main road then its fairly level. Lucille got me out of my Hollow and as I said I only ran her about a mile before she just died. I had a good neighbor who helped me tow her back to the top of my driveway and then I just slowly coasted downhill and back into my garage. Annoying morning to say the least.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
