thanks for all the great info I'm just jumping into my truck to try to get it going as I just picked it up last weekend, so far got fuel at carb, compression, but no spark, just finally got a dist cap last night from rock auto, but no spark so I'm running through the steps, I did the check on the coil for resistance, and I got 2.1 on the terminals, then I got 6.96 on the secondary, from what I read this is not a good coil, I then also have tried to crank with the test light on the neg coil terminal, and my understanding is as cranking this should flash, it doesn't so I should be looking into the points and dist also just wondering if I'm following the right steps, I know I won't get a 6 volt coil today but if I get a 12 volt should it atleast get me in the game so I can play with it more over the weekend thanks in advance Gino