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I rewired my 52 3600 front to back. it cranks real weak. Unless you hook a jumper cable from the positive terminal of the battery to the positive terminal of the ignition coil bypassing the ignition resistor. Does this mean the resistor is prob bad? Or have I done something wrong with my wiring. I have spark either way and have double checked my wiring up front and it looks to be right. Once the truck is running i can disconnect the jumpers and it runs fine.

Hy Joshua, I'm going to assume you have changed to 12 volts as there is no ballast resistor required for 6 volts. On the 12 volt systems there is a resistor bypass circuit/wire in the primary ignition circuit. On the 12 volt 6 cylinder stomp starter there is a terminal on the side of the starter switch, which you can either wire to the output terminal of the ballast resistor, or direct to the coil input terminal. You can install this type of starter switch on your 6 volt starter if you have retained it after your conversion, it bolts right in place, hope that helps.

sorry I should have said its still six volt

I was not aware that one was not required. There was a resistor on the truck so I assumed thats what it had to have.

If its still 6 volt, discard the ballast resister and that will probably fix it.

Wish i knew that a long time ago!! that was the problem thanks.