Coil
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Mikeinjersey
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I'm not sure of the source of this document but it may help you. It is from BD I just don't know what years it's from.
chubs
Guru
Way back in 1968, when I had a job delivering parts for our local NAPA store, they had a machine they could hook coils to and check them out. The reason I'm bringing this up, is because you reminded me about the time one of our regular customers came in and wanted a set of points and a condenser for an old tractor. The counter guy said the part number without even looking them up. ANYHOW.. I took the condenser back to the shop and charged it up on the coil tester. If you have ever worked in a parts house , you'll notice that 99% of the people will take the parts out of the package and " inspect " them. Long story short, when the guy pulled the condenser and touched the can and lead at the same time, he got nailed with full spark plug voltage. I would have got away with it if I hadn't laughed. He chased my young butt around the outside of that store 3 times till we were both out of breath and laughing about it ! Point being, maybe one of those parts houses near you might have a test machine.
nobbyjohn
Active Member
Could not open the file . But thanks for the reply
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Just Google it. I have to each time I have to test one.
Mikeinjersey
Well-Known Member
Not sure why regular PDF. Give this one a try.
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I've dropped your pdf into my Dropbox folder, link in my signature line. I believe a few others have the link in their signatures as well.
nobbyjohn
Active Member
Got it but I have to apologize here , on my coil it has three terminals two are marked as negative the center terminal is positive. So which is low tension and which is high sorry for these dumb guestions but I’m trying my best . All the videos that I looked the coils aren’t the same as mine .
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Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
The + side is common to both coils. They fire when one of the negative terminals is brought to ground. (one for front one for rear)