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Originally Posted by Alaska Jim
ground the Dist with a jumper wire to the ground terminal post on the Battery to make sure the dist. is grounding properly. had a friend with an off topic car this summer had the same problem. my only suggestion was to ground the dist. That cured the problem. turns out the eng block had been painted with the dist out and the dist. was insulated by the paint. I was glad it cured his problem as I was out of answers. maybe this will help you.
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Yes, we did go round and round on what needs to be grounded and there are a whole lot of repainted parts on this thing. So prior to reaching out I had already hooked up an extra ground wire from solenoid to block and cleaned distributor base and clamp itself to bare metal, the spot it contacts the block and even the threads of the hold-down bolt.
Appears the only thing not to worry about the ground on is the coil body itself.
Thanks for the input!