New electronic ignition and coil - no spark

(quoted from post at 07:51:51 01/28/18) 67 ford 3400 gaser c prefix. I just installed a new pertonics electronic ignition and coil. Very straight forward and easy. However, I discovered a random wire coming down from a cluster near my battery tray. It can only reach my coil, distributor or maybe just reach the starter but not the solenoid. It is a constant hot wire with ignition in on position. None of my plugs have spark. Should it be hooked to my coil? I think it's a blueish color. My distributor also had an internal ground wire that is not mentioned in directions or manual but is attached to the new electronic ignition plate.

I have negative and positive from distributor to coil respective posts. I have wire from starter solenoid to positive side of coil. As far as I know this is exactly the same as it was unless I had a brain lapse.


On another note and maybe a new post, my alternator is wired right to my battery. Not sure this is right but tractor ran perfectly fine up until I replaced the points and coil.

Thanks for any help.

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(quoted from post at 15:15:22 01/28/18) Sean; currently there are 3 wires. A negative from the distributor to the negative post, a positive from the distributor to the positive post and a positive wire from the Silonoid to the positive post (perhaps just a signal wire?). And obviously the main top wire from the coil to the center of the distributor. I will need to go check it for power again at the coil. I think it had 12.4 volts if I remember right. As far as I can remember that is exactly the way the old coil was hooked up as well.

Mike; Thanks, makes sense, the alternator looks fairly new so probably an aftermarket single wire. I wasnt sure if anything was lacking with the aftermarket hack job hooked up that way.

JMOR; Thank you SOOOOO much for that diagram. I was able to find nothing of the sort in my searches and my manual just has the standard diagram. The part that confuses me is this [i:feee0b9ef3] "If new coil needs no external resistor, then you must replace this resistance wire with a standard copper wire".[/i:feee0b9ef3] So i just swap out that wire for a new copper wire end to end?? and add a direct line the battery? _ sorry reading wiring diagrams confuses me for some reason. Now I wish I wouldn't have skipped that class to go hunting - well, maybe...

Thanks again guys!!

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(quoted from post at 16:12:33 01/28/18) Got it. Can I splice it at the ignition wire going to the silonoid or do I need to run the copper wire all the way back to the ignition post?

So I just checked it and it has 12.5 volts to the post on the coil from the silonoid however only has 8.5 volts coming out of the coil.

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