I’ve burnt the points, condenser and coil twice by just leaving the ignition switch on. Buy all three and replace the points a condenser first and if that doesn’t work, replace the coil. Worst case scenario you have a spare which is good to have.

I plan on installing Tom Langdon’s Mini HEI distributor or something similar. If you leave the ignition switch on, it will not harm anything.


Phil
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