The coil is (was) a 12 volt. The points don't look so hot either. But, I was going to get a rebuilt distributor with new points and condensor already on it anyway. I was just suprised to see a coil fail like this. It looked like "Old Faithful" had erupted a load of tar underneath the hood!
The PO apparently just dropped this engine in and didn't know that you needed a ballast resistor. The gas gauge is fried too, because there was no resistor put on it. But, I've got another one ready to put in. I'm just too lazy to crawl under the dash!
