Mark, the resistor is intended to keep the coil from being fried by too much current - nothing to do w/ the dist, breakerless or not - so if you've got a coil ....

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics