When I move the throttle lever on side of carb. , fuel jets into the carb.throat. Thats how I know that fuel starvation from empty tank , failed fuel pump, etc. was not problem.
Anyhow, today I installed the new coil and distributor cap. Tried starter and engine started up in three seconds. Shut it off and restarted it several times. Engine started quickly every time just like it should. Starts and runs with new coil, died and never started again with old coil.....hhhmmmm. Evidence is pointing to old coil having failed .
Just for heck of it, I put the old coil to distributor wire back on it to see if that wire was bad as it had sparked through the rubber covering yesterday when I did the screwdriver in the points test. Engine started right up , so the old wire was not bad. I'm going to put old distributor cap back on it and try it with the new coil just to see how it starts and runs. Then I will put the old coil back on it with all other new parts to verify old coil went bad as I believe.
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