gary in neb.
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got a chance to work on the 70 this weekend. picked up a "tune up kit" from A&I had points, rotor, condensor. so, put in the new condensor, made no difference. put in the points, still same thing. took carb apart, had some water and rust in it, so thought that was it. NOPE ran the same. still putt putt bang smoke. idle was fine. thought i"d try a new coil, even though the one on there has about 3 hours of run time on it. ran like it always did. so, thats the 3rd coil in a total of about 8-10 hours of run time. what would keep taking coils out like that? first one i put on was internally ballasted. second one was not and i had not gotten around to adding the external resistor yet. this third coil is an A&I 6 & 12 volt it says and does not require resistor. i"m 12 volt positive ground and coil hooked up correctly. wondering if there is a bad ground between dist. and tractor case?