Thanks, guys. I went ahead and hauled it home, where the tools are. Yep, I spent the day building a new crawl space access door at the place my daughter and her three kids just moved to. Hot and tired from doing a good deed, and the ol' reliable failed me, so I wasn't so much anxious as tired and ready to go home. And sorry about the long sentences, Hotrod. I was trying to get it all down as fast as possible so I could get back over there and get it going. I was really hoping it was flooded, as it may be, but it didn't start when I went back this evening. And to top it all off, I couldn't locate my volt ohm meter, so it was pretty fruitless. I will get to the suggestions first thing tomorrow morning. I even took spare points, rotor and condenser over with me, but was surprised at how good the cap and rotor, et. al. looked when I opened them up. I've just gotten too use to this truck firing up every time (although at times it involves the choke or throttle knobs). It's been awhile since I put the coil on, so maybe it's going south. Anyway, I'll give her a shot tomorrow. Would not surprise me one iota if it fires right up.
O3, I agree with the old school technology 100%. I bought the Silverado last fall after we bought 43 acres to build our house on. I needed something to get into the land, haul equipment and supplies down there, pull a 5th wheel we bought for a "break trailer" while working there, and as a back up for my truck. It's got an LLY 6.6 duramax diesel, which is good. But my last 1 ton was a 6.5 Detroit and the one before that was a 6.2 Detroit. I could work on those, but the duramax is an electrical maze. Sensors stacked on sensors ahead of sensors. The sad thing is, it's somewhere in the injector control wiring. The shop found a bare wire rubbing on a bracket, and that fixed it for a while. Then I replaced the two problem pigtails at #2 and #7, which is a bad engineering flaw from the get go, and that helped for a bit. Anyway, I got tired of thinking I had it fixed when it wasn't, so it's off to the local diesel expert (he found the bare wire on it). I'm pretty certain it will be sold soon after so I can find an old model that I can figure out.
MikeE- I will do that first. I actually stared at that area for a minute, but I think I was still in a daze of disbelief at that point that the old bomb had failed me- at the end of long hot day- with a grandson's birthday party to go to- while thinking "But it just started! It was running! How could it not start now???!" Oh well. Now we're home, and tomorrow is another day. Feedle-dee!! I'll report back when I know somethin'. Thanks again, fellas!


"When I rest, I rust"
1951 3100 5 window w/ '56 235