Joe, just to be sure you didn't get mixed up way back on this post. PLEASE look at your distributor one more time and tell me what are the three colors that actually come out of the distributor as you received it.
The reason I ask is because in those instructions you posted they talk about a BROWN wire. That Brown wire is a wire that is already on the vehicle they are speaking of. On a 55-57 Chevy, there is a a brown wire that went to the ballast resistor. They are saying that this wire is attached to the new coil positive terminal. It is NOT a wire from the distributor. I am now wondering if you got mixed up. I hope you actually have a orange wire and have not mentioned it.
You have said that your distributor has three wires coming out of it: Black, Red and Brown. Please conform this.
The MSD "ready to run" distributor, which this seems to copy, is wired: Red to coil positive, orange to coil Negative and Black to chassis ground. None of the "ready to run" clones have a brown wire.
This is what you said: "There are three wires that come out of the distributor, red, black and brown." I would need to see a picture of that to believe it. You are not color blind are you? Some men are color blind. It's not a joke.
